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TIIE OMAITA DAILY UEEi FHIDAT, MAT 22. 1003. ft The Omaha Daily Dee. I E. ROSE WATER, EDITOR. -PUBLISHED, EVERT MORNING. TERM Or SUBSCRIPTION. SnHy Bee (without Sunday), One Year...84. Dally Be and Ijjnday, On Year S00 Illustrated Bee, One Year... 8 ' Sunday Bee, one Year J fafurday Bee, One Year 1 wentieth Century Parmer, One Yar.. X.00 - DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Fafly Bee (without Sunday), per copy Jc aHy Bee (without Nunday), per we-k....llc Dally Bee (Includln Hunday), per week. ,17c Sunday Bee, per -opy c Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week c Evening Bee (Including Sunday), pr weea , ic rmplaVt'a"oY 'VrreVuLaritiea 'in "delivery snouia oe addressed to City circulation w pertinent. i OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building, Twsn-ty-nrth and M Streets. Council Fluffs 10 Pearl Street. Chicago 164" Unity BullriinK. New fork 232 Park Row Building. Washington 601 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to newa and edi torial matter should be addressed: Limana Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, navaHi. Th, Vim vuniidtMna; Company. Only S-cent stamps accepted In payment of nail accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchancea. not accented. THE BEE PUBLISHING CpMPANT. . STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. aat. i.t M.hmk.i rtmiaiaa County, aa! Oeoraa B. Tsarhuck secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn. MlVI that the .i-tilnl number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning Evening and Sunday. Bee printed during the fnanth of Ai.rll ia,l aa aa follows: I... Bl.TTO . it ai.ooo j 1... 82,fiOO ,1-MB 8 t. 8:1,01)0 It. at ssn I 4.' sajiao 1... 2?,5W ao .. 81.H10 21.,... T S1.B&0 22 .. Sl.USO 23 S.. 81,630 24..... 19.. 81.0TO 25 U 8a,USO ... J..... il ao,4i X7.V... u ui.tito - n..... 14...... ai.BSO . 2t .S9.1BO .81,0 UO .81.4MO .Sl.TIO .ai.weo .31,030 .8T.1T0 ,81,TO .81,010 81.BSO U 1,0M . , 80, BLiao Total.. ....V......'. 00,300 Lees unsold and returned copies..., lo,a Net toUl sales . ...989,937 Net average aalea 81,881 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In ray presence and sworn to veiure me mis u. day ot May, a. v. vtj. M. B. HUNOATB. ' (Seal.) Notary Public . The: union teamsters have done the wise thing In withdrawing the boycott and striking out for competition. Every one hereabouts awaits eagerly the terms of the settlement of the Union Pacific lockout to make sure that it is really at an end. Cuba has celebrated its first birthday anniversary as a republic with becoming ceremonies. t Cuba is a lusty infant in the family of nations. . . Mr.' Bryan's Omaha understudy, who Is trying to construct the next demo cratic national platform, reminds us of the blacksmith trying to repair a watch. In view of conditions existing in South Omaha, the suggestion baa been made that this is a good time for the street railway company to inaugurate an owl car service.' While we ere pasting resolutions of sympathy for the victims of the antt- Jewish riots In Bessarabia a postscript might be added for the triple lyucbtng Just reported from Florida. It Is well to remember that, the worst persecutions ' and the bloodiest . massa cres recorded In history have grown out of religious Intolerance. And it seems . that such will be the case to the end of time, ' rresldent . Euclid . Martin does not , want to arbitrate nor abdicate, and neither does Chairman Guye. It is al ways difficult to pry a man loose from a title, even if It is as empty as an egg shell. - . t Ex-Cashier Tulloch Is making lots of noise and attracting much-attention with his charges of postofflce corrup tion, but he has not yet made it clear why he should have waited all this time before telling what be knows. Now "that the national convention of musicians has -served formal notice that tbe music at the St. Ixnila World's fair must bear the union label, the officers of that exposition may as well prepare to' pay the, fiddler or face the music The use of oil on the roadbeds of American rallwaya la said to be growing rapidly in favor as a result of success ful experimental triala. Oil has not yet, however, displaced the use of water In the floating of American railway stocks. If Tammany prevalla upon Circuit At torney Folk of St Louis to deliver the principal address at Its annual Inde pendence day blowout, the Tammany braves may, have to listen to something from tbe great boodler prosecutor they do' not want to hear. The British and German electrical companies may enter Into a noncom petitive agreement with division of ter ritory, as Indicated In the cable dis patches, but they will reckon without their host if they-leave the American merit system. The qualifications It re electrical companies out of account 1 quires for sppoiptment are a . general Lincoln bus Just been the scene of a student riot, with more people suffering broken beads a pa nruises than were injured in the whole period of the Omaha strike. But no demand for the declaration of martial law or the sum moning of Uia. state militia has been made. Tbe adverse decision of tbe court in the Injunction case to prevent Haacall it Co. from perpetuating themselves in ths council by carving out new wards for themselves is based on the declara tion that, that Is Just what the law makers Intended when they passed the charter amendment. This puts it up again to the Douglas delegation to the legislature, who, for pulling corporation cXcs touts out of the fire, bad no equal. r ROM 13 AXD PtRrORMAirCK. It la evident that the local republican organ la already making ready to apologise for the action of tha republican atate board of equalisation In refualng to rale railroad aaeeaamenta In tha faoe of a "doubling, trebling and even quadrupling" In market valuea. The eve of another atate campaign la approaching. Ana it ie necearary for The Bee to make ready to eat crow. The Bee- process of making ready la very almple. It merely labela tha bird "turkey, with cranberry aauce,"i and Its down to the table. World-Herald. It U evident that , the local Br jranlte . ' organ la making reaiy w priK tactlog that bare destroyed popular belief In It a honesty and sincerity and made It linpoaalble for the aemocrais to regain the confidence of the masses even In . the face , of the acandalous record made, by Tardon Broker Savage tnd the indefensible ' record of the re publican state boarda on the aasessruent of railroads two years ago and last year. 1 ... Everybody In' Nebraska remembers the suggestive ' alienee, of; that sheet about the Bnrtley pardon and the pitiful position Into which Its serpentine course placed the f uslonlsts. . Everybody re members also the arrant demagogy that has characterized Its, discusalon of the railroad tax issues, -which was in such marked contrast with the course pursued by this paper and ita editor. ' The paramount issue upon which the Bryanlte democracy, or ratner tne aemo- nnnnrrf. mm- Into nower in Nebraska r 1 - waa anti-monopoly.... Free silver was a mere lnciaent. ine pianorm upou which the fusion reformers carried Ne braska in 18SXJ and 1808 denounced rail road domination, and , railroad pass bribery and pledged candidates to equalize the burdens of taxation. How did these promises tally with perform ance and' In what respect did the pop state officers differ in dealing with the railroads from their republican prede cessors and auccessorsf Did the World Ilerald ever denounce the demo-pop pass bribe takers? Did It ever pillory the demo-pop state boards that failed to carry out the platform pledges of their party on railroad assessments? Would It hare entered remonstrances against a repetition of the performances of the Poynter beard by the Bavage board if the Savage board had been made of democrats or popullBts? When has Bryan or his democratic organ been known to do anything except to find fault and decry republican boards of assessment? Mr. Bryan is a lawyer and lives at Lincoln. Why has he never appeared before an' assessment -board, or before the courts, to raise his voice against the outrages perpetrated against the taxpayers by the flagrant ' under valuation of railroads? ' Mr., Hitchcock' is a lawyer and claims to be an anti-monopolist" Why has be never Invoked the power of the Court to frustrate the conspiracies by which the people have been subjected to the iniquities, of railroad under valuation? Why have not these foes of monopoly ,olne1 the 'dltT of Th Bee in making the fight for tax reform? In so doing they could make no 'political enemies inside of their party, while The Bee was compelled to incur the enmity, not only of party leaders, but of the entire cor poration faction of its party. So, far from getting ready to apologize, The Bee ia determined to keep up the fight and will continue to oppose public men of all parties who betray the people in the Interest of the corporations and whose performances are at variance with their own pledges or the pledges made for them In their party platform. coyaCLdR ItS f (J ft U C J St PA ION. It is said that President Roosevelt Intends to devote, more attention to the question of consular reform and; that probably there will . be . numerous changes in the service within the en suing year, those who are Incompetent or Inefficient to be replaced by new men. How the president regards this service was shown In bis first annual message. "The guardianship and. foster lag of our rapidly, expanding foreign commerce," be said, "the protection of American citJzena resorting to foreign countries in lawful pursuit of their af fairs, and the maintenance of the dig nlty of tbe nation abroad, combine to make It essential that our consuls should be men of character, knowledge and en- terprlae. It is true, that tbe service I now in the rosin efficient, but a standard of excellence ' cannot ' be permanently maintained until the principles set forth In tbe bills heretofore submitted to the congress on this subject are enacted into law." These measures contemplate re forms that would effectually divorce the consular service from- politics and as sure appointment to it only of men of character, knowledge and enterprise. The campaign for the reform of- tbe consular service has ,been reopened by the National Business league, which Is I sending out copies of , the Lodge bill, ac co vn ponied with arguments for Its pas sage. The character of this measure baa frequently been pointed out It proposes a complete change in the system of se lecting and promoting consular officials. abolishing congressional patronage en tirely and placing the service under the knowledge of the trade conditions and resources of . this country, as well as of 1 the country to which the appointee Is accredited, and ability to spesk either French, German or Spanish, as well as good English. The purpose of the bill is to make fitness the sole test for ap pointment and promotion. Although the measure failed In the last congress it will undoubtedly be pre sented to the next congress, or a. bill similar In character and aim, very likely backed by a much stronger support from the business .interests of the country man it nas yet receiver. There la no doubt that we shall sooner or later have thla proposed legislation, , because our growing . foreign Interests are steadily strengthening the demand for It and as the New York 'Evening Post remarks. when this reform-ia once established "everybody will look bark with aniaxe nient on the previous condition of servi tude to which American merchants and manufacturers were Iwund. A genera tion hence It will be hard to believe that It was possible for congressmen to use the office of consul aa a mere living for any party henchman out of a Job, regardlesa of bis qualifications for the duties of the office." The consular service has been very much improved in recent years and un questionably it is now in the main efficient, comparing well with that of any other country, But no one can say, under the present system, how long It will remain so. A change in the po litical,, character of the administration ruignt result In destroying or very greatly Impairing the efficiency of the consular service. The proposed legisla tion would do away with this danger. for once enacted It would stand. The ! republican party Is committed to con sular reform by its last national plat form and should not fail to provide the necessary legislation. lAHtKlfiQ TO OHIO. Will the Ohio republican convention, shortly to be held, endorse Mr. Roose velt for nomination by the next national convention? Is a question that is com manding no little interest not only In the Buckeye stste, but elsewhere. There appears to be diversity of opinion among Ohio republicans as to what should be done, some urging that the president be endorsed by the coming convention for nomination next year, while others think the better course would be to simply endorse the administration and leave the nomination question . to be passed upon by the state convention of 1904. which will select delegates to the national convention. It has been reported that Senator For- aker had already prepared a Roosevelt resolution and that this would probably be opposed by Senator Hanna or his friends in the convention. There Is no doubt that Mr. Foraker, together with a very large majority of Ohio renub- Ucans, favors the nomination of Mr, Roosevelt, and we have seen no reason to think that Senator Hanna Is not among them. It Is possible, however, that the latter may not deem it expedi ent to declare for a nomination at this time and if this Is his view it Is quite likely to prevail with the convention. At all events the question should not be allowed to cause any discord among OhlA ronilKllana ar, n.h. Kl HI a. I - - , ouu jjiuuaiijr will lltj I be. Should the convention favor Mr- Roosevelt for nomination it would un doubtedly be gratifying to a very large majority of republicans throughout the country, but should it be decided to defer the matter to next year's convention it will have no important effect UDon the general situation. A.AOTHKB BTATtBUVD FIQBT. It is promised that there will be; an early renewal in the next congress of the fight for the admission ot the terri tories to statehood and it is Bald that already the advocates of their admis sion are -planning for the contest Ac cording to a Washington report Senator Beveridge and those who stood with him in the long fight Inst winter are willing to vote for the admission of Ok lahoma without the Indian Territory, but there is no disposition to reconsider the position taken as to New Mexico and Arizona. The opposition to them, It is stated, stands Just where it was during the session. The delegate from New Mexico, Mr. Rodney, is quoted in Washington dls- Plcne8 connuenuy preaicung me ua- a ot lemiory tue next session or congress, but inaicatea that it may be necessary to form a combina tion with Arizona by which the two ter ritories would come in as one state. It ia somewhat doubtful, however, whether such a combination can be made. We think it not improbable that all of these territories will be given statehood by tbe Fifty-eighth congress, but It Is not at all likely that this will be done at I the first session. Norman E. Mack's proposition to sub stitute tbe laws of supply and demand for 16 to 1, without tbe aid or consent of any nation on earth, in the next democratic national platform Indicates return to horse sense. The attempt of the Bryanites to suspend the laws of supply and demand has been almost as much ot a failure as the attempt to discredit the laws of gravitation in the times when Galileo cried out in his prison cell: "And still she moves." Tbe only Instance on record when the law of gravitation was presumed to have been suspended Is when Joshua made the sun stand still in order that be might smite the Phllllstlnes. Nothing .emphasizes the delicate struc ture of our industrial mechanism so forcibly as the flurry in stocks caused by the submission of Mr. Harriman to an operation ordinarily without serious dsnger. Tbe health of one man who standa as the pivot on which so many great enterprises turn is a vital factor in the stock market, apparently more so even than changes in tbe responsible executive offices of the government In no country In the world is the power of a private citizen so unumitea as here. President Roosevelt has been con gratulating the people on the fact that our government has so far escaped "the twin dangers of government by a plu tocracy and government by a mob- either of them absolutely alien to Amer ican ideals." The people are confident also that so long as they have a man as courageously devoted to the basic principles of popular government as President Roosevelt In executive office, the government will continue to escape these dangers. An unsophisticated patron of Tbe Bee wants to know who has gained any thing In tbe Omaha labor trouble. Why, tbe railroad corporations, of course. While the mrrhints and manufactur ers of Omaha have been tussellng with the unionized worklngmen the railroads managed to got away with the loot In the assessment of railroad property. which makes the merchant, manufac turer aud home-owning wage worker carry the tax burdens the railroads are evading. Applying Base Ball Re lea. Chicago Chronicle. Let ua subject industrial differences to base ball rules. Three strikes and out wou,d Quickly clarify the situation. A Jadlrlal Care-All. Chicago Inter Ocean. The man who la compelled to turn Ms collar should not be denied the right of Injunction, and he probably would not be If he took the proper steps to obtain redress. Salting the Salt Trnst. Baltimore American. The Salt trust waa fined 11,000. If justice could have salted away a few of the mem bers of the combination In temporary re tirement It would have given much mora seasoning to ths anti-trust prosecution. Seek las; mm Attractive Berth. Buffalo -Express. There Is talk In Washington of reviving ths grade of vloe admiral of the navy. The argument la mads that officers of that rank are needed to command certain of ths foreign stations. Perhaps a reason may also be found In ths fact that certain rear admirals would very much like to be pro moted, s. Retaliating; on the Masslers. Philadelphia Press. One of our contemporaries suggests that ths newspapers now. stop making politicians by ceasing to mention them or give any account of what they are doing. Just as likely as not the legislature would take notice of that In course of time. The poli ticians wouldn't amount to much without tha newspapers. Tear-Stalne Mlaaowrl. Philadelphia Press. A witness before the grand ' Jury In the Missouri boodle eases shed a great many tears while testlfvlna to the brlh- ery of members of Uus legislature. This flow or riet came rather late In the enterprise In fact It was so late that the statute of limitations protects thoje against whom he was testifying and for whom he was so copiously weeping. Aa Example te Thlak Aboat. New York Tribune. When the Merry Monarch, Charles II of England, the ruler of whom It was re ported that he never said a foolish thing and nover did a wise one. was lingering in his laat Illness, with exquisite courtesy he begged his courtiers to excuse him for taking so long a time In dying. Colonel Bryan should meditate over this example. Fa,a"Jr atrlcken in politics, he delays ths " " -"t n UK ment for an unconscionably long period. Pretence euad Performance. . Philadelphia Record. William A. Btone In the office of governor would have frankly signed the Balus-Orady muziler without any explanatory phrases within twenty-four hours after Its passage, O01, Pennypacker. on ths other hsnd. woi, 115 amuim me munier sor nearly a' month, like a cat at a kettle of hot broth. Tet he ''was ready to sign ths bill before It Was passed.. He has lntl mated as much in his 'thessage of approval Notwithstanding thlsOlie Invited tha news paper men to a publUrtiearlng on the meas ure when he and. his attorney general sat In solemn state to listen to arguments to which he had resolved to give no heed. Pemocratte Alarms. Pittsburg Dispatch.' ' Mere reiteration of policies twice rejected by the nation, or mere repudiation of them. would not constitute a vital platform. The attitude of the democracy , toward the tariff, the trusts and the expansion policies is one of simple negation. There is no positive constructive policy to attract the voters. The outlook at this date ts that no matter who Is nominated the platform will be largely made tip of viewing with alarm, Inspired by the planks In 'the re publican . declaration. The national 'cam paign of the democracy bids fair to be a reflex of the democratic campaign In con gress. a strangely Incoherent and. Ineon sistent jumble of sntagonlams " without leadership and politics without a policy. Repeataaee Wit boat Reatltntlom. St Louis Globe-Democrat Witnesses who come out of tbe grand Jury room with streaming eyes and other signs of emotional distress are naturally supposed to feel the pangs of an aroused conscience as well aa to have yielded to a desire to turn a new leaf. But, as far as heard from, there haa been no offer to deliver up the boodle admitted and specified In the case. While confession Is good, confession and restitution would be much better. The money could be ued to good advantage In the school fund. where It now legally belongs. The tears of quickened sensibilities might flow more freely If the money Is returned, yet weeping at all, while the b-odle la re tained, would seem to be illogical rather than pathetic- Repentance plated with boodle is not a satisfactory artlcls. "PASSISG OK THE BOCKIES." . Geographer of Some Fame Slights the nation's Backbone. Waahington Star. Mr. Cope Whltehouse, a geographer and explorer of aome fame, declares that the popular conception of ths Rocky mountains Is an error, that there la. In fact no con tinuous chain of mountains extending from the northern to the southern boundaries of the United Statea, no great continental di vide such ss Is generally depicted on tha maps of North America. He does not deny that there Is a region west of the Mlaals slppl marked by general mountainous con ditions, but he refutes ths supposition that these conditions form a continuous moun tain chain. Ths future maps of tha west ern half of the United Statea, he says, will be- materially different from those now need In the schools ss the basis for the geo graphical knowledge of the children: 'The passing of the Rockies," ss pre dicted by Mr. Whltehouse ss a result of bis explorations, will be generally regretted. It Is difficult to part with an old concept. whether It be of a moral or a physical faet. The preaent generation will be alow In ac cepting the new Idea of a Rocky-lees west. Many peraons will prove obdurate adher ents of the old view that there Is in fact a continuous chain of mountains. Some will marvel that In these days of minute ex ploration of the western country by home seekers and the developers of mineral re sources ths maps should have been so slow of change. But If It be a faet that the maps are wrong, and that the Rockies do not exist as the popular conception runs, then of course there Is nothing to. do but to change the face of the country as It Is borne in the public mind's eye. . Let the Rockies paaa if they truly da not sxlat. Nothing can changa the records of hardy pioneering serosa the country which, whether so shown on ths msps or not. Is nevertheless rough and difficult snd rocky and mountainous. The hlatory of the open ing of that great region by a toil which Is one of the marvels of human enterprise will re DIMISISHISO rtBLIO DOMAI. Last Year's Reeor af Homesteads Takes the Greatest im Hlatary. Minneapolis Journal. Aa the public domain grows leaa the rate of reduction rapidly Increases. During the last fiscal year 19,600,000 acrea passed from public to private ownership. Of this amount about HOiW.OOO acres were taken by original homestead entries, to the number of S, 829. Never before In the history ot the country were so many homesteads taken. Although ths public domain of Canada la only Just beginning to be distributed there were nearly five times ss many homestead en tries In the United States ss in Canada. Under the atone and timber act, which will probably ba repealed by the next congress, 645,000 acres were tsken, while under the desert land act Kt.000 acres were bought from the government. Other large Items In ths totals are 1.4(8,371 of stats selections and 1,931, 904 of railway selections. The total area of the unappropriated and unreserved public domain Is 93,965,476 acres, of which 988,000,000 acres Is In Alaska, leaving about 68,000,000 acres In the states and territories. Most of this Is mountainous and more or leas arid, but there is no telling what fu- ture developments may add to Its value. and that a large part of It has a present value Is shown by the rush to get some ot It. In Minnesota there are stilt 3,680,000 acres of unreserved and unappropriated land, though It Is going very fast, more than 900,000 acres having been taken last year. The total reservations ot ths publlo lands amount to 161,000,000 acres. A very considerable area of government land outside of the forest reserves Is cov ered by forests and about 100,000,000 acres mors will eventually be rendered valuable by means of irrigation, to say nothing of ths land that will be made tillable by the advance In knowledge concerning crops adapted to arid and semi -arid regions. Uncle Sam hss plenty of land left to take care of. Because the best part ef the pub llo domain has been taken Is no reason why diligence should not bs exercised In seeing that the rest ot will do the most good. It gets where It CURBING MONOPOLY". President Roosevelt's VIeterles Over Coasolttated Capital. Ban Francisco Chronicle. It Is useless to deny that during his brief tern of office President Roosevelt has done mors than has been accomplished since monopoly became dangero'us to bring con solidated capital Into subjection to the law. It Is not difficult In response to popular de mand to get them enforced against the op position ' of powerful moneyed interests. President Roosevelt already has to his credit the tombstones of the salt trust, the shingle trust, the beef trust, and now, with little doubt, that of the Great Northern Securities company. These are the first distinct victories over capital ever achieved In this country in the Interest of the public, and they, have been achieved, not In ani mosity to capital, not In a revolutionary spirit, not with the intent or desire to pre vent the free employment of capital in whatever amounts for useful purposes, but solely with the object of forestalling any possibility of oppression snd solely by ths enforcement of existing law. The laws under which these victories have been won have been on the statute books for years. The on a important thing accomplished be fore 1903, under the law, was the estab lishment of the Illegality of pooling by com peting railroads. That did little good, for equivalent! devices were substituted. Presi dent Roosevelt has attacked these and has won. . For his success he Is .doubtless In great meaaure indebted to .tha great breadth and depth of the legal knowledge of 'Attorney General Knox and his faithful and vigorous service, but the personality and strenuous character of the orealdent are back of It all. He Is not only enforcing existing law, but has procured additional legislation Which will enable him to ac complish mors. He has Just begun the work. It Is safe to predict that before he ceases to be president he will have denltely established the status of ths great corporations on a basis which will permit and encourage the employment of capital In all legitimate ways, but will make cor porate oppression an Impossibility. And that Is ths advantage of a vigorous presi dent.. LIFE IXSITRAKCB. Astoandtnar Flanres that Are Dlrfl. colt of Comprehension. New York Sun. The summary of the report of the life Insurance companies doing business In, this state aa given out for publication by the state Insurance department recently la al most startling. All the large life Insurance companies In ths country conduct opera tions here, and the ' statement aa Issued covers, therefore, practically the life in surance business of the United States. Ths gross assets of these life insurance companies reached at the close of the year the enormous figure of 12.062,430.804, an In crease during the year of 8182,806,240. Their gross Incoms wss 8488,736,271, an Increase of 860,800.801 The disbursements for ths year were 8312,931,556, an increase of 826,750,510. compared with the preceding year, moat of the disbursements, of course, representing the sums of money paid for Insuranca claims. Four hundred and ninety-five thouaand seven hundred and twenty-nine policies, standing for Increased Insurance of 8867,810.547, were Issued during the year, These figures ars astonishing, and there are few people who caa fully comprehend what they mean. They are a monument to the wealth, power and saving Instincts of our people and to the popularity of life In surance aa a method of Investment. There Is this thought, too, that Inevitably occurs In connection with the matter: Much the larger share of the lncreaae In assets of these great corporatlona Is In personal property, rather than real eatate; that Is, It Is In money. As these life Insurance companies accumulate cash to this vast ex tent they must invest it, and there is an nually, therefore, an Investment demand for securities proceeding from the life In surance corporations which Is conserva tlvely estimated at not less thsn 8160.000,000, focused very largely, of course, upon ths local market In Wall street. Taking this as a basis and adding fo It ths demand for securities by Are Insurance companies. trustees, executors, to say nothing of that of private investors, we get some Idea of what Wall street calls the country's power or nnanciai absorption. MACHINE MADE MONTANA Contrivance . tha BUTTE, Mont, May XI. The man who placed the Infernal machine In the hold of the steamship Umbiia while it lay at the Cunard pier In New York May 2, was in Butte a month ago. The New York police communicated to Chief of Police Reynolds of Butts shortly after the attempt to wreck Umbrla certain peculiarities In the dry battery of the machine. The local police found that It had been built by thl Montana Electii cal company of Butte, and that the man answering ths description of Roaseau, the suspect, purchased It at that stors one month ago He was unknown here snd has not been seen sines. A detective from New York Is hers working on ths casa IN Intends to Blow Atlantic LJaer I'sabrla. ROIKO ABOtT DEW YORK, Ripples en the entrant ef Life la the Metropolis, Since the edict that gambling must gs struck Chinatown and Mulberry Bend policemen and plain clothes men re sponsible for the Integrity of that region have had a world of trouble to convict ths celestials pulled In for playing. Scores of Chinese gambling houses have been raided with Indifferent results. As a consequence the sleuths have been ordered to get next to the Chineae language, and their gray matter la In a state of agitation perilously close to brain fag. One day last work Grlmahaw and Powers, two of the sleuths attached to the precinct took their first lesson In Chinese. They had been sent to raid a fan-tan game at No. 22 Pell street. Standing at the door of the house wss a Chinaman. As the detectives approached he sang out "See maa." A door slammed on tho second floor and the sound of bolts being shot wss heard. Orlmshaw and Powers walked around the block and came back from the other side. Once more the bland fat Chinaman sang out "See maa," and the door was shut. The detectives went through the house, but were unable to get Into any of the rooms. Seeking a Chinese merchant of repute they found that "See maa" meant "Shut the door." They also learned that another Chinaman whom Powers had thought of arresting for singing "Erin go Bragh" was in reality giving vent to "Erl go Lab," which Is Chinese for "The police are com ing." Back to tha gambling house went the detectives and arrested the fat bland Chinaman and his companion. Thsy wars fined 82 each In .Jefferson Market court, despite their protests that they were stand ing In front of No. 22 Pell street for the purpose of filling their lungs with fresh air. , One of ths most - magnificent hallways In New York Is In ths nnanciai district, where It Is generally supposed that noth ing but austere architecture and severs designs In color prevail. It Is the entrance hall of the new Hanover National bank, at the corner ef Pine and Nassau street The scaffolding was taken down recently. The walls of ths hallway ars of gray veined 1 marble, with many slabs of pink lined onyx, . delicately shaded, veined, marbled and streaked with pale blue and whits. Around the bottom of the walls there runs a base of black, onyx. It gives a peculiar effect There Is one great arched window running through the wall, which Is nearly six feet thick. The window la about six feet broad and high, so that It looks Ilka a deep box. Ths whole of It Is faced with colored onyx In varying shades. The cell ing is Moorish In color and Corinthian In architecture. It Is dons In solid gold shades except for a tracery of green on the highly ornate moldings that surround each square of It. ' ' . i ; The stranger who . visits New York to day will find a number of streets In a low tide of travel, so different from their usual full-to-the-banks and seething currents. This Is because thousands of men ars on strike, thousands of horses are having an unusual rest and one wagonload of build ing material Is seen where there are usually ten. The forces have been marshaled In a great labor struggle and the effects are felt by all classes, from the man who wants his window screens put in to ins nanx that has given up Its old quarters on the expectation of getting Into Its big, new structure In the early fall. A calculation has been made by a mem ber of one of 4.he associations that 100,000 skilled men has oeen thrown out or em ployment 'because ' of the strikes of tha unskilled trades. The loss was an average of 84 a day, or 8400.000 a 3ay In wages, ttat never could be made good to the men thus forced to be Idle. . ' Thev are nrorresslng pretty rapidly along the line of shop window exhlbltlors In this town, savs a New York letter, xne most. alluring affair of that sort yet out Is hap pening Just now in the big snow winuow of a Sixth avenue nosiery wDum' A large sheet of spotless white canvas Is suspended from the top to tne poiioro i the rear of the. window space. A dosen neat round holes are cut In a row acoui two feet from the bottom of this sheet of . . . . ..u . V. a a tiAlea. canvas. rrotruaing mroi at frequent Intervals during the shopping hours, are six pairs or extremely snpijr '.miniM iimha. dressed tn most elaborately clocked and ornamented ilk stockings, held In place above the knee Dy garter, wim diamond buckles. Ths limbs ars rights and lefts, truly enough, and they have a sing ularly, life-like appearance, n In fact. In the most numan manner. The crowd standing In front or tne win. n- ia startled, after watching the ex hibition of llfe-llke-looklng limbs for ten minutes or so. to see the same suddenly withdrawn. Then the white canvas sheet Is quickly rolled ur. and six pretty girls, neatlv dressed their skirts of conventional length-stand side by side, blushing. The spectators are privnegea to gu wnw.. the hosiery had been displayed upon the human models. The writer Is Id a position to state, In strict confidence, tnat it nao. They've got an extra uorce " handle the crowds in front of that store. in oonflrmlne: the finding of the commis sion on the Pennsylvania tunnel the appel- - Hivlslon of the New Xork supreme court has finally wound up ths last spool of legal red taps wbereDy tne prosrwa of the plan has oeen nmoe - laysd. The scheme haa been spprovea oy the Rapid Tranalt commission, the board of aldermen and the special commission named above, which was appointed to hear protesting property owners, and ths work of bringing New York half an hour closer to. Philadelphia may now begin. rt la nroDosed by some capitalists In New York to erect a seventeen-story building on a lot twenty-six by forty feet, thus con taining 1.040 square feet. It will be the "skinniest . skyscraper in mov ciijr ui needle-like construction. Has all sense of ronortlon been lost to me grouna w.r. and the archltecta of the big city, or are hav determined to aemonstraie inai iu. vertical life is after all ths llfs to leadt Russia's Traditional Policy. Philadelphia Record. Russia suppresses news as far as It can. and then announces that the Finns need no aasistance, the Jews need no succor, tne Poles sre happy. It has not yet forgotten its traditional policy ot "creating a desert and calling It peace." Waltham Watches Keep time. "The Ttrfeded AmertcM Witch," .n ZastrAicf look of tnitrtsting infornulion botd vkhes, atft b $tnt frtt upon rtqvtst. Amertcn Wmttfum Wttcl CompjLny, ' Wlthm, Mass, rsRaosAtj hotes; Prof. W. H. Pickering of Harvard, who i has been carrying on a series of lunarl observations, is said to have discovered unmistakable evidence of ths presence f hoar frost on ths moon's surfsce. Prof. Florlan Cajarl of Colorado college has been selected to represent the United States on ths International committee on organisation of the International congress for the study of historical sciences. A New York physician haa evolved a. scheme for restoring life after the hsirt haa ceased to beat Let him try It on the Parker presidential boom, with Cleveland and Hill as ludaes on thought and delivery. To Prof. Angelo Hellprln hss been awarded by the Geographical society of Philadel phia the Ellsha Kent Kane medal, only conferred on two scientists before. He has also been re-elected president of the so ciety. Rev. Dr. P. r. Dlsset of St Mary's seminary, Baltimore, will celebrate the golden Jubilee . of his ordination to the priesthood on Msy 26 snd 27. Hs has been connected with St Mary's seminary for forty years. Detective Sergeant William C. Welser of New York has resigned his office. He ad mits having $300,000 laid aslds and promises thst the hardest work he will do for the remainder of his life will be to clip coupons off his bonds. . President Charles S. Palmer and four teen members of the faculty ef the Col orado state school of mines will bs dis missed at tha eloss of the school term, June 80. The faculty recently went on a strike against the president It la related that when the mother ef thirty-two children was presented to Presi dent Roosevelt In San Jose, Cat, the other day, be said "she should be made the president of some association, but he didn't know what." It would seem that such a mother would have enough to attend to at boms without taking on any outside burdens. Alfred P. Goss of Ban Francisco has ap pealed to the courts to demonstrate ths fact that he Is a genuine forty-niner and there- -fore entitled to membership In the Pioneer i' association ot the state. The society dis putes his right to a plsce in the ranks of ths old settlers and despite the fact that Does ,1s a millionaire has refused him ad-( mlttance. a 1 Lulu Hadley, ths Indianapolis hotel chamK , bermald who refused to make up Booker T. Waahlnton'a bed because he Is "a nigger," has sued the Western Union Telegraph company and the managers) ef a hotel, charging that a telegram offering her a position In Texas was opened without her consent and the contents made public. She asks 85.000 damages. A statue of General Robert E. Iee, commander-in-chief of ths confederate ar mies, will be placed in Statuary hall at Washington Just as soon ss It can be pre pared. The Virginia legislature has taken the final step by passing a bill making 810,000 available for the work and appoint ing, a commission to see that' the plans are executed. The opposition developed to the statue in certain quarters spurred ths legislature to take action sooner than otherwise would have been the case. LIGHT AND LIVELY. "How did your manager get his present position T" . . "He put on a Prince Albert coat and silk hat and bluffed the old man Into giving him 8M a week," Record Herald. Flrat Actor Did Buskin have a long run In the west? S Second Actor Long run? I should say he did. First It waa the cowboys, then the sheriff.-PhlladeIphla Ledgter.r ' St--.!:- "He has a pretty good opinion of him self, hasn't he T". - ' "Well, rather. Why, he even holds that his crankiness Is one of the eccentricities of genius." Chicago Post. " - wur uiu wagner is heart-hrnken over tha loaa r,f hla - . " ...V UIWMI.I - In-law. Wiggins Go 'way. man! You're kldrfln trie. Jlggins Faot! They have no one now with whom they can leave the children Whn tk.v wan, , n a . , U a L. . Philadelphia Telegraph. Am tha vnuna- nn-.n 1 .v " w . B vdv w e-a v an uia tgir It atfinnM With a. 4a.rlr mwA sK. a heavily on th toea ot th man who had ucn et-iiunv oesiae nr. "I risasr VAiit narHnn .( a.k I At - sn aiuuii! I aniiej gaili, riot At f sail maam ' ha sanliat ..i.t. - f Jf tJyA amile on his anguished factj ' . . """ ' saiia uiasdrtl didn't reel it.' Chicago Tribune. 'T wlArlkoh SIAfMa ax av .... ' r -I., rm .nu; n;e societies. Ia tnr nV difference between 'Insurance Usually assurance Is what the fellow hss who Is forever trying to sell you Insur ance." Philadelphia Press. Romeo killed himself on Juliet's tomb. yem" they explained, "he thoue-ht ah had taken a cup of railroad coffee.' Sadly they went for Shake, eara ta writ. up the obituary. New York Bun. The house had been full of aunties come to spend the holidays, and the baby's a. year-old brother waa heard one morning "Bay, papa, do you know I've had to sleep a whole week in a room Just full of women?" Lipplncott'a Magasine. "Why don't you go to work?" asked ths stony-hearted atranger. "Mister." rejoined Meandering Mike, ssdly, "don't you call makln' up all dese hard luck stories workT" Washington Star. Judge "I will give you just ons hour to get out of town!" Peevish Polhemus "Well, If I'm brought back here for over-sneedln' me 'auto' don't blame me, Jedge!" Puck. HAIL TO THE BLl'B AKU THE OKAY. Hall! Hall I to the Blue and the Gray The Blue of the garb and Gray of tha hair. Soldlera of freedom, now far on life's way. Once more do we greet you with song and with prayer. We sing of ths scenes that called you forth. When your young hearts thrilled to tha hot tide of war Of deeds that set high your soldierly worth In quiet of camp and In battle's wild roar; Of comrades who fell In terrible fray. Where bullets and shells hissed thick In the air; Of others who sleep In the homs-land to day, 'Mid tha verdure and bloom of tenderest care. And your prayer Is ours, as one It Is spoken. That peace be the aim, but with power to fight. To protect what you saved, and keep It unbroken ' A nation whose flag ts the symbol of right. ( . Hall! Hall I to the Blue and the Gray. Omaha. BERIAII F. COCKRAN.