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THE O "MATT A DA TLX BEE: TUESDAV, APRIL ilS, 1003. 6 Tim Omaha Daily Bee E R CHE WATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNINO. TEHMK or subscription, f'sly He (without 'Sunday). One Tear..R00 V.l.y Hee mil Sunday, One Year " lMu.-trtfi lite, oiip Yrar J- twentieth century farmer, one Pally lira (without Sunday), per copy.... Jc la"? &,ulm hunfjay itee, per ropy Evening Bee twlthout Sunday), per weelc so Evening lie (including Sunday), per weK Complaint! of Irregularities In delivery should bo addressed to City circulation De- fcartment. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omahacity Han Building, Twen-ty-ttfth and M Htreets. Council bluffs 0 I'earl Street. Crilcago 1640 Unity Building. New York 232S Park Row Building. Washington 501 Fourteenth Street. r'niinvapnNnE.VCE. rmnnin.!. r.intinr to ntwa and edi- torlat mutter should be aaaresseu; Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. rt.tr,i k r.rm or nostai order, - - , u payohle to The Bee PubHtilng Company. Only 2-cent atampa accepted in payment or tnall accounts. Personal checK eiwii Omaha or eaatern exchange, not accepieu. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Stats of Nebraska, Douglas County, as.: George B. Txschuck, secretary pf The says that the actual number of full and EvTnP,ln.CdPBeu'dafv BVfnuJ'duX. u?e month of March. 1803. was as follows: 1 29,315 2 31,510 ai'tbo t 31,730 31,010 20... 6 31,020 21... ai.UIW 22... 7 St.oAO 23... 31,uno .31, two ."" I o itiui 1 2ttfglO I s.bo I I I 10 11 12 13 14 14 16 ....WM7U 24... ...,:tl,4UH 23... ....31,4M 26... ....81,750 27... a-i rid I ' ' I .31,740 ..81.770 ... .81,720 ....81,750 ....31. 700 ....2U.530 ....31,340 ,,,.31,70 23.. 30.. 11.. ....Utt.000 HI 41'ill 8i,7o Total Lew unsold and returned copies Net total sales ,VT U,uvu 10.481 u.ui4 hikiioq Iset average sale. lien . GhiORaE B. TZ8CHUCK. ffUor:Cm.dthl. aToteMa?c"WrD" l ma .ViIm lllat Htv (Seal.) Notary Public The Elklus law does not seem to have yet had any effect on the railroad ticket Bcalper. , ti,o naxt thinir we hear of. all the .... I felines and canines will be ornamemea with nn..n atrenmers. The building contractors and the build ing trades should get together and wing around the May pole. One week from today the agony will be over and the Benson balloon will come down to earth like the stick of a skyrocket, r Down In Missouri the average legls- latlve boodler cannot be touched for anything smaller than a thousand dol- lar bill In Nebraska a fifty-dollar bill and a railroad pasteboard generally does the business. Chicago has always had It In for St Louis. St. Louis has been commanded to apologize by a Chicago local paper for the depredations of a yellow dog on the calf of the leg of the adjutant gen eral of the United States army. Tn it. snnrtnv the Kansas Citv .1 Star devoted one column of its valua- ble space, 10 cents per agate line, to 'lbvima r?nM In Dontli " Whether thev to.l aire rafaponra to tho Omaha noomer ..n,iM.. u nt r1tanioBed in tlia article. Taxtjavlnc citizens of Omaha should remember that It Is Just as Important to elect reliable and unpurchasable men to the council as it is to elect a mayor who will check extravagance, veto law- structed to express to the Chinese gov kss appropriations and stand up against ernment the dissatisfaction of the corporate pressure. With the approach of May day comes the season of move-outs and walk-outs, In Chicago 50,000 people are expected to move from one part or tne city to another and 20,000 wage workers are expected to take a walk-out for fresh air and higher wages. John Bull's four billion dollar debt does not seem to disturb the equanimity of King Edward in the least and the high old time he is uow enoylng in the gny capital of the French indicates that gny capital he Is willing to add a few hundred thou aand pounds sterling more to the deficit. The new labor law of New York for bids the employment of women for more than fifty-four hours per week or any longer on any single day than from 7 a. m. to 10 p. m. After 10 p. m. they will be permitted to take exercise In dance halls uutll 4 a. 111. without Intermission. , ! . Ml Kansas City Jobbers and , manufac turers are making arrangements for a trade tour to the Mexican Hue that will cover a distance of 2,!3 miles of rail road and afford them an opportunity to visit eighty-two towns in Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Indian Territory, Arkunsds ami Kansas. ' Here Is a sug gestion for the Omaha Commercial club. The wicked flee when uo one pursueth. The Beusonlau fakery Is very much alarmed lest there should be some roor - bucks published about the boomer can- dldate. Whatever yellow Journals have done or may do lu political campaigns The Bee has never resorted and will not resort tq sensational Octlon to w in a politlrul battle. When you see It in The Bee you may depend upon it that It is so. The labor situation in Omaha has at tracted the attention of the National Civic federation, which is especially or- ganlzinl to prevent aud to arbitrate con filet between labor and capital. It Is to be hoped, however, that the services of the civic federation will nut be called in requlsltlon. If organised capital in Omaha will recognize the rights of or- ganiied labor there will be no serious trouble In adjusting all the differences between employer and employe. ova uhsat rvRtiun VOMMI.nct. Everybody Is nvcare of Uie fact tliat cur fort'lu coiuiuercu has bwn growing very rapidly lu rewut years, but tint uiauy know how marked this lncivase nus neon. ucti information is uliucu , comparative figurps of the burVnu of . . . Htnttstlcs, just completed. These coin- i induction and exportation of ninuufaoturcs with prwlui-tlon ana ex- portntlon of agricultural products, the P"' ''"K thC rP,,Ulve growth In euch case. The statistics .. .,. show that In lfMX) the exportation of uianufactures wus twenty-five times as . great as In IKK), the Increase In the ex portation of agricultural products being very much less. Since iHit, ror in stance, the value of manufactures ex ported has Increased over 537 per cent. while the value of agricultural products exported has Increased only a little more than 131 per cent. It should be under stood, however, that the total value of the latter exported In 1000 was almost double the value of the manufactures. so that It is our agricultural products that make the large trade balance in our favor. In the matter of Imports, also, "our foreign commerce has been growing In the last few years, the Importations during the twelve months ending with March being the large.t of any year in our history and exceeding $1,000,000,- 000. This still left a balance in favor or this country for the year or $413, 000.000. which must be retrnrded ns en- ' 13 il rr.i. 1 i t uitrij Biuini.ni.iui jr. x lie iuuikiibc iu ilu ports, which Is of course an evidence of 1 . 1. t ... I A I,, . 11 . - i'"ugu i-uunirHiusj vo it cunniuei nuie ex tent of manufacturers' materials. Im- nortatlons will decline should labor .,.. .., . ,.,.. "m"i "i"' bti luuni JUJUtlil IUUUD' trial activity. That Is what Is now ap orehended from the threatened labor troubles. If these shall be averted, as I It Is most enmefitlv to he linnpit the . . .". : will be. there is every Dromlse that the - exlsrlnir Indtistrlnl sctlvltv will b Ualntalned and that our foreign com- meree will continue to Increase. Careful observers of Industrial and commercial conditions point out that we are now expanding our production In a way that will soon outstrip the growth of population and the demands of the home market; that we shall have a I A r era vnlnmo rf npnilnntt tn unit V. rl ,..v-..v .. " leriam ueriveu airecxiy rrorfl uie SOU, and then there will be a check unless a ready outlet is to be found. "It be hooves us," says a writer on the sub ject, "to have an eye to that future when we shall need a larger foreign market and to remember the last ad monition of President McKlnley, when he reminded the country that In order to sell It must buy." There Is no doubt that lf the Pate of profiuctj011 of the iast few yearg lg maintained, not to sav increased, we shall have a very large surplus to be disposed of abroad, and the question of securing the foreign markets Is eerrainly a very Important one. We have here the greatest mar ket In the world, but it cannot consume indefinitely all that our Industries are capable of producing. We have to meet a strong competition abroad and are threatened with an extensive sys tem of discrimination. These are con- dl0onB that mnke the "Ject of holding anil f rtrtaalKlA AtllnMvtnn Aaa .-t " " uur ioreiKu 1 rrn ri ta nna rr rwrr m anriinw ma-nau - " ,s "Ported from Washington that me American amuassauor at Bt feters- "Urg has been given instructions which amount to a protest against the Russian demands regarding Manchuria, while our minister at Peking has been in United States wltn those demands. This course our government Is fully war- ranted in taking, In view of the ra peated assurance it had received from Russia that American Interests In Mn cburia would not be Interfered with. These assurances were so explicit as to have removed any doubt that may have been entertained respecting Russian de signs. The present demands, which lf complied with by China will certainly prove very damaging to American in terests, therefore came as a rather start- j Img 8urprl8e at least t0 WaRhlnKton. It , ... to oj uiaiacu naa a ci uj vi 1VUOB11IU UU' plloity that it could not be permitted to go unnoticed, even though a protest might avail nothing and the Department of State has done its duty In the matter and acted none too promptly, Of course the United States will do no more than protest, which will prob ably not affect Russia's purpose, but the moral influence of this "country ought to count for something wltV China. At any rate this country will not, It Is safe to say. become involved , In any extreme measures looking to the defeat of the Russian policy. . There are two powers. however Japan and Great Britain which it would seem must take some decided action. Those1- nations have an alliance which was understood ,to have been formed with direct reference to such a move as Russia is now making, If Japan shall decide that Br interest and future weirare require that she 1 shall resist. If necessary with force, the Russian Manchurian policy,' Great Brit a'u Is at least bound by the alliance to I see that Japan has fair play, to the ex- tent of not allowing any other nation to I Join with Russia. The world will wait with keen Interest for developments re- garding the attltudf .to th, matter of Great Britain and Japan, especially the latter. It Is well understood, of course, that the Japanese government and peo ple are strongly' opposed to Russian - domination of Manchuria. They , fully reallre that it Is most dangerous to their Interests and that It Is a menace to their future welfare and progress. If not iu- deed to their national indepeadence. They do uot want so formidable a neigh- Imr, with an lusntlable greed for Orl- ental territory. Japan would perhaps havt been satisfied to have tho condl- tioua it'inulu as they were when she en tered Into the alliance with Great Brit ain, but she may be exacted to most vigorously protest against the latest de velopment Htissilan policy, lloivever. lu a matter of such grave Importance Jnji.in will not proceed hastily or rashly and will doubtless be advised by her oily. Meanwhile the United States govern ment has made Its position clear ami will firmly adhere to It, though It will not become Involved In any complica tions that may arise out of the Issue among the powers directly concerned. rorPLcruy axd huh'ell. William S. Poppleton Is an uneompromls- g advocate of the economical and business- ke administration of public affairs. Hit advocacy of the principles that In local campaigns the citizen should align himself for those candidates whoae election prora tes the best government Is of many years' standing. A stalwart democrat, he has stood for purity In politics, for a non partisan and. unbiased administration of public buaineia. He la the kind of a man who does not hesitate to go outside his own party, where he believes it necessary to accomplish this result. He Is a leading member of the Municipal league of this city. Mr. Poppleton, however, believes that, in the mayoralty fight this spring, the best interests of Omaha will be subserved by the election of Edward E. Howell, the demo cratic candidate. He makes bis position clear in the following authorized interview given the World-Herald: "You may say tor ms that while I do not Intend to stick rigidly to partisan lines In this election and shall vote, with one or two exceptions, for the candidates endorsed by the Municipal league, I am for Edward E. Howell for mayor and shall vote and work tor him. In common, I think, with most men who re familiar with the political history of Omaha, I regard the race as entirely be- ween Moorcs and Howell. Mr. Benson will receive a flattering vote, but he can not possibly be elected." World-Herald. Mr. Poppleton is eminently correct when he says that the mnyoralty con test is between Moores and Howell. Mr. Poppleton's endorsement of Edward E. Howell should, however, carry little weight with taxpaylng citizens who want to protect Omaha from corporate misrule and corporate aggression. Under ordinary conditions Mr. Poppleton would be a safe counsellor on mu nicipal Issues, but In this Instance his ordinary civic pride has given way to partisan prejudice. Six years ago Mr. Poppleton supported Edward E. Howell, notwithstanding his discreditable record In the city council and in the legis lature. On this score The Bee published the following editorial on Monday, April 19, 1897: Mr. Poppleton Is a well bred and a well read attorney, but he has a great deal to learn yet in politics. According to Mr. Poppleton, the people of Omaha who de- ire good government should vote for Mr, Howell because he stands upon a platform sound in principle and full of promise. Mr. Poppleton evidently relies upon platform pledges as a drawing card with voters, even when the record of the candidate Is in diametrical opposition and no matter how many .times that candidate has gone back on platform pledges on which be has been elected. The democratic oounty convention which nominated Edward E. Howell for state senator last year promulgated a platform to which each candidate was pledged. One of the planks of that platform pledged Mr. Howell to labor for the abolition of the fee system- In the district court and make the position of clerk a salaried office. What did Senator Howell do to redeem this pledge, and wby was the bill abolishing the fee system strangled without coming to a vote? The plank on which Mr. Howell was nomi nated for the senate pledged him to give the city of Omaha home rule; In other words, the privilege to make and amend its own charter. What did Mr. Howell do to redeem bis pledge? Why did he not even introduce a bill with that object in view? The platform on which Senator Howell was elected denounced the republican party for the creation of numerous extravagant and useless salaried officials and pledged him to bring about a system of retrenchment and economy. How did Mr. Howell live up to this pledge? He did not try to abolish a single state office denounced by his plat form ss extravagant and uaeleas. Did not the legislature, with Mr. Howell's aid. create number of new salaried and fee offices instead of abolishing Ihem? What assur ance have we that Mr. Howell would redeem his platform pledges any better than did Senator Howell? How does Mr. Howell's record in the city council harmonize with the pledges made for him in his platform for municipal own ership? The man who as councilman had to be enjoined in the courts by William S. Poppleton to prevent him from passing the fifty-year guo franchise over the mayor's veto, who voted for the ten-year garbage monopoly and Wiley's various electric light ing Jobs, who voted to override the mayor's veto of excessive water works bills. Would a man who played fast and loose in all the contention between the city and the con tractors and franchieed corporations likely as mayor go back on his old friends and associates to fulfill the pledges of his latest platform? The Benson boomers point with pride to the achievement of their candidate for mayor in locating a suburban village adjacent to the city limits, but they seem to be oblivious of the fact that the taxpayers of Omaha have hod to mortgage Themselves for hundreds of thousands of dollars for wooden block pavements, water main and gas main extensions for the benefit of suburban towns, while the Bensonlan suburb hns never contributed a penny toward the expenses of Omaha city government in the shape of taxes. It now transpires that rural delivery Is not always a blessing In disguise. While the mail order houses are enjoy ing a lucrative business by direct trans mission of original packages to the farmers, the country merchants have a grievance and are protesting In every section of the country against the ex tension of rural delivery activity. Havana druggists are on a strike against the Cuban government for placing a 2-cent stamp tax on every package of patent medicine sold. The Cubau druggists evldeutly have not got ten on to the trick of adding len times the stamp duty to the price of the patent medicine 1m it tie. The business- men's candidate for mayor is making pathetic appeals for support to organised labor. What the business men's ciuulidnte ever has done for organized labor, excepting as boomer of outside lots on the Install ment plan, we have not yet been able to discover. The lieutenant governor of Missouri Is willing to step down and set a new stake on the Pacific coast if the grand Juries will let him go. The last lieu tenant governor of Nebraska went to the Pacific coast without waiting for an Invitation from a grand Jury. No Kirk Coralns. Cleveland Plain Dealer. How can Uncle Sam criticise the dilatory course pursued by the sultan when he him self has Just paid an award of damages 102 years old? Rattling; the Cans. Chicago Chronicle. The net result of the traction scrap at Springfield seems to be that sundry states men will be kept busy detschlng tin cans from their coat tails for quite a spell to come. Pot Shocked by the Kettle. Detroit Free Press. The action of Russia In grabbing Man- cluprla, while Great Britain Is busy trying to grab another slice of Africa, will ap peal to London as a peculiarly brsten piece of Russian duplicity. Jo Bailer a m. Plutocrat. Chicago Record-Herald. Joe Bailey of Texas hss become a cor poration lawyer. He is said to have re ceived a fee of $200,000 the other day. Mr. Bailey may now be expected to take a more liberal view concerning the rich. Do it Some More, William. Hartford COurant. A hundred high-priced spellbinders, loaded with statistics and funny stories and will ing to labor diligently in their vocation from now until the eve of election day would not be worth one-half as much to the republican party as William J. Bryan is. And William J. Bryan's servloes are not costing the republican party a cent. China's Immenae Population. New York Tribune. The current reports that census In China Including Mongolia, Manchuria, Tibet and Turkestan shows a total population much above 400,000,000 exceed the highest esti mates which were generally accepted In earlier times. Europe's entire total falls far short of such an aggregate, and both the Americas are hopelessly distanced in comparison. Evidently Asia is In no dan ger of racial suicide. Tendener of Lcarlslators. Chicago Chronicle. And now It is a Wisconsin legislator who rises to announce that be is In pos session of evidence which will send bait his colleagues to the penitentiary. This latest evidence of a tendency to land all legislators in state's prison suggests the advisability of abolishing state legislatures altogether and turning the lawmaking In dustry over to gentlemen who are already enjoying the state's hospitality in striped garments. Tramp Cltlsena Abroad. Philadelphia Press. United States consuls are frequently greatly annoyed over the demands made by alleged American citizens who cannot speak the English Janguage and who have not been In this, country for many years, Consul Lawson, who Is stationed at Quito, Ecuador, tells of a naturalised oltlzen who has resided over, forty, years In the land of his nationality without even visiting the united btates,. and who cannot speak Ens llsh, and yet claims to be sn American citizen. There should be no "citizenship in this republic a mere shield to enable the person concerned to escape Just responsibil ities at home. ' Bryin'l I'ltlmatum. " St. Louts Olobe-Democrat. Bryan's Kaness City address represents the ex-candidate's ultimatum to the east era end of his party. He Is not going to get out of politics even though the conven tion of 1904 may not grant him any of Its favors. As he is young, Is in good health, and Is as ambitious of being a force in poli tics ss he ever was, there Is no doubt that he will be active for many years yet. Brysn is rich through the republican prosperity which b la defeats have brought him. He must etlll, however, keep up his hostility, either actual or pretended, to the repub lican party end to the republican policy. This is part of his trade as a politician. In the meantime his hardest words will not be for the republicans, but for the Cleve land section of the democracy, which he fears Is soon to get Into the ascendant in his party again, but which will encounter his hostility while he remains In politics. Sand Lot Orator of Capital. Detroit Free Press. No little restraint Is required to treat the speech made by D. M. Parry to the National Association of Manufacturers in New Or leans with something of the Intensity of language which characterized bis address. Because of the demand for a concessionary spirit Mr. Parry should have shown soma of it, if not for himself, for his associate! and their common cause. All the sugges tions of the situation wwre that he should make a conciliatory address. Instead be angered and goaded labor, derided it as ignorant and servile to a mercenary leader ship aiid likened It to the Huns snd Van dals in its moral conception of right and wrong. In framing his premises he told some homely truths which orgsnlzed labor is Itself rapidly grasping, but for the rest he . ranged from insult to brutality. He preached for capital with the blind fanati cism of the demagogue a veritable Dennis Kearney haranguing sympathetic audiences among the sandhills of San Francisco a capitalistic Coxey leading a new army upon Washington. GO TO THE! MiWSI'APER. Tha Best Way to Catch the Pnblle Eye In I.ealtlmate Manner. Toe Howard In Boston Globe. There is but one "best" way to catch ths public eye, In an inoffensive and purely legitimate manner. The greatest merchants long since found out that way. Look at the amazing amount of spread "ads," plain, displayed and small "ads," published in all the really successful papers of the land. In each city there are favorite media used by the chief trders. snd also by the hum bler seekers for help in times of need. Ar rayed attractively and classified expertly, these columns of snnouncement tell, even to the ordinary reader, a story of human Interest that few romances can equal. Every phase of existence has Its photo graph, suggestion or plea. Tha classifica tion of announcements is a comparatively new and certainly a helpful aid to the stu dent of modern life. Old Mr. Bennett Justl fled the personals In his paper on the ground that everything of human interest waa entitled to a chance. The desire to know the news makes people buy a news paper. Every advertiser Is Interested to see his sppeal. You are not likely to look from your paper to the posters on the fences, and as you are In a tar the freaks on the street don't catch your eye. "Print era' ink" made Bonner aDd Barnura, two busy bees, who gathered much of ths pub He's honey. Moral If you really care to catch the publlo eye, advertise la what the public reada. ' COAI, BABOW DF.FI. Baltimore Araerliait: The coal roaiV view of the objection ot the public to high prices of coal as "the whining of whipped dogs," bears a curious family resemblance to the resentment of the ancient Romans at the gladiators who were to be ulauRht- ered declining to lojk pleasant about It. Chicago Record-Herald:. As President Baer asserts that he would welcome a proceeding In any court of the United States to try the question whether he has violated the law or not he ought cer tainly to be taken at his word. Nothing would suit the public quite so well ss an aggressive move by the attorney general of the United States in this matter. Chicago Chronicle: For a gentleman who la In partnership with Omnipotence Brother Baer's memory seems to be mighty bsd in the matter of freight rates, pool ing contracts and, such matters. More over, the deacon's temper appears to be getting much undlvine. Can it be possible that the confidential relations which have existed between Brother Baer and the throne of grace have been dissolved or suspended? Philadelphia Record: Not merely upon the report of the anthracite commission, but upon all the evidence accumulated for years, no one doubts the existence of the coal trust. What are wanting are the Judicial proofs of its violation of the laws. and these the combination naturally seeks to delay as long as possible. But what with the investigation of the Interstate Com mission and the Department ot Commerce, supported by the same energetic action displayed by the attorney general In the Northern Securities merger, the final is sue csnnot be much longer postponed. No distinctions can be made among the cor porate transgressors of the laws of the United States prohibiting conspiracies in restraint of trade. PERSONAL NOTES. There Is no doubt about the propriety of the 'loop" which Rear Admiral Schley ex ecuted when Invited to make a lecture tour. Now that Florida has re-elected Senator Mallory, the millionaire's club at Washing ton Is once more full, tor the first time in many years. David Bennett Hill Is fairly certain of the solid backing of bis state for the demo cratic nomination for president next year. Carry the news to Havelock. A new financial system is to be tried in China. The population has Increased to such an extent that the money has to be cut into smaller denominations. It is told of the Marquis Ito, the premier of Japan, that when a youth he wandered about the streets of London, penniless, ragged and hungry, a starving alien in a strange land. In a New York personal advertisement a husband pleads with bis absent wife to re turn, and concludes: "I have an automobile and two traps; everything to make us happy." Nothing remains to be said if this expedient In persuasion should fall. There Is a movement for the erection in the Embankment gardens, London, of a memorial to the late Sir Arthur Sullivan, the composer. It will be in the form of a bust and there is to be a scroll inscribed with a suitable text, words and music from Sir Arthur's works. The governor of New Jersey responds to the sonorous name of Murphy, a giant In his class. One day last week. Just for exercise, he uprooted 927 trusts at one swoop and macerated undigested securities to the amount of $239,000,000. He wasn't feeling very good either. ' Professor S. Stanhope Orris is lying ill with paralysis In Hong Kong, having lost almost entirely the power of speech. Pro lessor Orris was the Swing professor of Greek and Greek philosophy at Princeton and last years resigned his chair to make a tour around the world. A resident of Pittsburg, Pa., a member of the Reformed Presbyterian church, has re fused to accept an office under the general government because he cannot conscien tiously take an oath to support the consti tution of the United States while It contains no recognition ot the Deity. Miss Alice 'Thaw's dowry will come in handy in rehabilitating the marqulsate of Hertford, to which Lord Yarmouth, her fu ture husband, la heir. The estate was much Impoverished by the slienatlon of a good portion of Its resources to the natural son of the former marquis. Eliza Boyle O'Reilly, second daughter ot John Boyle O'Reilly, will publish a book of poems some time next fall. She is said to have Inherited a good deal of poetic fire from her distinguished father, who Is gen erally regarded as considerably the best Irish poet of the last half century. Chen Tung Liang Cheng, the new Chinese minister, Is a great lover of baseball and used to play in the Andover nine when at school there. He has taken up the post prandial mantle of his predecessor in of fice, making his first after-dinner speech at the banquet of the Asiatic association in New York the other evening. DISSATISFIED PESIO AGENTS, Concerted Attack on the Methods of Commissioner Ware. Philadelphia Press (rep.). A few men, chiefly in Washington, who raised a great outcry against former Pen sion Commissioner Evans because he did not facilitate their efforts to get through doubtful claims have now begun a similar outcry against Captain Ware, the present commissioner. He Is also charged with obstruction, and similar charges will pro'b ably be made against any future head of the pension office who performs his sworn duty. Ths charges against Mr. Evans had no effect on President McKlnley, and those made against Mr. Ware are not likely to have any more effect on President Roose velt. No man could charge President Mc- Kinley with any lack of Interest in the old veterans, of whom he was one, and no one has yet been bold and foolish enough to. make such a charge against President Roosevelt. Captain Ware, the present head of tho pension office, was a brave soldier, and about the only thing said against him is tbat "the whole pension policy of the bureau is about the same as It was in Mr. Evans' time." While that Is a great credit to Captain Ware, it is very annoying to the claim agents, cne of whom refers to Cap tain Ware as "the youthful commissioner." As Captain Ware served through the Civil war and In the Indian wars, his youthful nees Is not very apparent. Tho threat to organize the veterans for use In the presidential campaign to en force a more liberal pension policy is ab surd. This nation la pursuing the most liberal pension policy ever known in the history of the world. But men who make tbelr living on percentages earned from the work of securing pensions for others are In some cases dissatisfied. To blame the bead of the pension office is In the highest de gree sbsurd. The threat of organizing the veterans so as to overturn the republican party is childish. Tbls was done under the last Cleveland administration, aud the vet erans know too well the result. The pension policy of our government la much more liberal than that of any other government in existence. So liberal haa it been that many think it much too lib eral. But aa for Increasing pension pay meuts by liberalizing the laws now on the statute books that Is a question for con gress; but It is not la the least probable that it wUi U doaa, J BIT" OF WAailUG-TOS LIFK. Minor Srenea aad Incidents Sketched on the Spot. The original manuscript of the Immortal Declaration of Independence has become so faded and worn that the precious document hss been placed In the fireproof vault of the State department and Is not to be ex hibited again. Most ot the text Is still legible, but only one or two of the signa tures can be made out. There is only a trace of the autograph of John Hancock, the first to sign. The action of the Stat department was the result of sn examina tion made by a committee of the Amerlcaa Academy of Sciences. The committee, equipped with powerful microscopes, found that the Ink was not of first quality. The fact that the engrosser (now unknown to history) used s sharp pen and bore steadily upon it, accounted In a measure for the better preservation of the text, as com pared with the signatures. The grtat damage sustained, however, was in 1820. when a copy wss taken by the crude letter press process. This was done In order to secure a facsimile for the sur viving signers (one ot whom was Thomas Jefferson) and their families. The commit tee recommended that the declaration be shut In an air and light tight case and kept from exhibition. Third Assistant Secretary Peirce of the State department hat Just completed ar rangements for the execution of an set of congress, providing for a recut of the great seal of the United States from the original model and the suitable protection and pres ervation of the original seal. James D. McBrlde, who hss the contraot for the work, has notified the State depart ment that Mr. Max Zeiller, an expert en graver of Philadelphia, will cut a duplicate of the present great seal and that tha -press to be used ss a cover of the seal will be provided by the Hoe company of New, York. The necessity for a new seal grows out ot the fact that tha one now in constant use is nearly worn out and in no condition to stand much further wear and tear. A lively scramble has been going on for the past month among the swift typewriter operators of the United States patent office for the honor of writing the greatest num ber of words In a working day. Miss Mary E. Pretty so far holds championship honors and It seems improbable that any of her associates can approach her record ot pounding out 20,400 words in six working hours. ' . Miss Pretty, together with about twenty other girls, is engaged In copying patent records. It la difficult work, technical in character, while the copy Is In manuscript form and is often hardly legible. About a month ago Miss Pretty counted the number ot words she had written one dsy and was surprised to learn that they amounted to almost 18,000. In some manner the fact got Into the Washington newspapers and was copied elsewhere, the story being that Miss Pretty was the most rapid typewriter op erator in thd government service, If not In the country. This publication set Miss rreuy s renow workers on edge and a great race ensued among the girls to beat her record. For the past three weeks the typewriting machines In the assignment division ot ths patent office have been buzzing to the limit of their capacity. Some of the girls broke down under the strain ot trying to writs more than 18,000 words in a day. Miss Pretty, however, has again set new figures for rapidity. The other day she rattled off 20,400 words between 9 and 4 o'clock, al lowing about an hour .for luncheon and other Interruptions. This is sn average of about fifty-five words per minute for six hours, and is an exceedingly' creditable perfor mance. Miss Pretty's chiefs ssy that her ! work Is very good, there being very fen errors In It. A campaign against the mosquito Is being planned by Burgeon General "Vyman of the United States marine holtal service. H has Issued a special circular to the various acting assistant-sergeons at the different ports where fruits Is received from Central and South America and the West Indies. "Your attention Is called," says General Wyman, "to the spread of yellow fever through the agenoy of the mosquito known as the stegomyla fascoata and speolal pre cautions should be tsken to prevent their presence abroad vessels. Should yellow fever break out at your port you are re quested to cable immediately to the bu reau." It Is now recognised by medical men In all parts of the country that fevers and contagious diseases generally are spread by mosquitoes and the surgeons of the United 8tatea army have been Instructed, wherever it is possible, to continue the in vestigations made in Cubs, which estab lished the fact that yellow fever Is spread by the winged pest.' Extraordinary pre cautions are being taken in the city of Washington against the spread of disease by mosqultos during the coming season. Preparations are being made to drain all of the ponds near the city er to so cover the stagnant water with oil that a mos quito will not be able to get either la or out of it. Officials of ths Postofflce department are conducting a practical test of ths new postal system for the collection of letters by means of street railway cars while they sre in motion. The device consists of a narrow letter box eo arranged on the body of the car that at right-hand street cross ings letters may be dropped Into it while the csr Is running under a moderate speed. It practically provides a long and wide trough-like mouth on the side of the car, which Is entirely without covering of sny kind, so as to admit ot a quick, vertical drop of the letter as the car glldea by. To show tbat the mechanical arrange ments of the box will provide adeqats protection for the mall from injury in lUhat Poes """1 the average person know of stays, and lining and thread? 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