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1 TTTT5 OTUATTA DA1XT BEE: TTTTTRS'P.AT, JUNE 4. UWHI. Tiie Omaha Daily Bee. E. ROSE WATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Daily Pea (without Bund)), One Teor..4.00 Daliy Hee and Sunday, une Ifar Illustrated Hce, One Year Sunday I!r, On Year Paturriny Be, One Year..' Twentieth Century Farmer, One Year 6 no 2.00 2.(il 1.60 too DELIVERED BY CARRIE. K Di!y B (without Sunday), per copy ... 2c Dally Bee (without Sunday), per week...l-c Dally Bee (Including Sunday), per week.. 17c Bunday Bee, per copy J' Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week. 6c Evening Bee (Including Sunday), per . IOC Complaint's' 'of Trr'ei'ularltles In delivery Should be addressed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha fity Hall Building, Twenty-fifth ami M Streets. Council Bluff 10 Pearl Street. Chicago 1640 Unity Building. New YorkT-2328 Park Row Building. Washington oul Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. 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Tsachuok, secretary of The Be Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month ot May, iww, waa a iouows 1 30,WN 17 ..28,400 ..81,03(1 ..30.TAO ..3O.80O . .8O.KT0 . .30,040 I ; ftO.OTS 1.. 1 86.200 19.. 4 80.MK) 20.. 1 30,730 21.. 6 UB.5TO 23. 1 30,4170 S :mvio 80,740 10 a7,77B 11 ao,44o 12 8O.8T0 18 .10,20 14 80,780 23 BO.MO 24 ilH,Z80 23 80.K10 26 80,700 27 SO,7BO 28 SO.OSO 23 3O.00O 80 SLHftO 16 i 0.0BO 81 16 80,800 Total Leas unsold and returned copies. 27,000 ...oes.ooo ... 10,848 Net total sale .:. IMa.RBa Net average sale ao.43T GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this list day of May, A. D. 1W3. M. B. 1IUNGATE, (Seal.) Notary Public. This la when the Mississippi river comes In handy to carry off the over flow. Mark Hanna pushed the button at Columbus yesterdny and the Ohio state convention will do the rest today. Above, all the flood . wreckage Judge Gordon's salary claim seems to float on the top as if It were made of cork. More shipments of gold to Europe are scheduled In the financial news. Europe knows where to look when It needs the money. Denver has bravely survived Its city election contest, but it will take several days to take the bitterness out of its mouth. At the rate it usually sprouts and ripens, It will not take Nebraska corn long to catch up If It can only once get started. . First round results In six points apiece for mayor and council, but each appears to have held out a few cards for the next deal. Senator Hanna Is holding an Ohio state convention of his own, but he will permit Senator Foraker to act as per manent chairman. ' Just a little longer and the railroad time tables will again tell when the train will come In instead of merely when it is due. ' These various organizations that have the temerity . to appoint committees at this time to arrange for their annual picnics are deserving of. success In any cause. mie the mayor and council are sparring over appointive patronage, the holdover incumbents .whose successors have failed of confirmation can keep still and look happy. Mayor Moores has started the ball a rolling for the relief fund for the Kan sas flood victims. Let all . disposed to help send their contributions to the mayor. Every little counts. In return for his pains Mr. Tulloch seems to be getting it from all sides. It is quite evident that when he tried to spring his poetofflce sensation he bit off more than he could chew. It does not make much difference who pays the expense of the water works appraisement in the first place. If they buy the plant, the taxpayers of Omaha will foot the bill In one form or another. Sir Thomas LJpton has been through the mill too often to be frightened off in advance by lelng told that his yacht has no chance to lift the cup. He goes on the theory that no race is ever won until it Is run. At one of the group meetings of the Nebraska State Bankers' association the serious subject will be up for discus sion. "Overdrafts and How to Avoid Them. We . would suggest that this subject properly belongs before some or ganisation of bnnk depositors. President Roosevelt is sure that the future will put Abraham Lincoln on an even higher pinnacle than we have put him. That has been the rase through all history. It has always taken time to give the proper perspective to enable us to appreciate the real greatness of our great men. The campaign entertainment given by Joseph Chamberlain to Jolly up his con stituent is called a "garden pirty." American politicians, will, however, con Uaos to stick to the clam . bake, the barbecue sud the good old-fashioned picnic and 1st thess nsw-fangled British Innovation sverely aloua. , i THE ortx DOOR POLICT. Ambassador MeCormlrk. who has Just returned to this country from 8t. Peters burg, suys that Russia will undoulitodly maintain the open door to trade in Manchuria and his opinion in the matter is of course entitled to great considera tion, llecent advices from Peking, how ever, Indicate that Russia is inflexibly opposed to having any new doors to trade opened in Manchuria and that therefore the efforts of other powers, in cluding the United States, to have ad ditional ports for foreign commerce established in that province by the Chinese government is likely to fall. If Russia is really favorable to the open door policy In Manchuria and honestly intends to maintain it, if she wants foreign trade to go there for the develop ment of the country, ns has been as serted by the Russian ambassador to the United States, why does she oppose the opening of new ports to eucn trade? Terhaps the true explanation is appre hension on the part of Russia that if larger opportunities for trade were given foreign nations her policy in regard to Manchuria, which undoubtedly contem plates absolute domination, might be interfered with. With existing condi tions maintained she can probably carry out this policy, but affording larger op portunities for the admission of other foreigners would be wry likely to strengthen opposition to Russian -' ad vance and thus embarrass and possibly defeat the designs of that power. Her demands for certain concessions China has refused, on the remonstrance of other powers, to grant, but the Chinese government is unwilling to risk compli cations with Russia by acceding to the requests of other nations for the opening of new ports in Manchuria. In this particular Russian Influence has shown itself to be supreme at Peking. There appears to be nothing more for the powers to do than to continue to in sist that China shall grant no further concessions or advantages to Russia in Manchuria which might be inimical to other foreign interests. They cannot reasonably expect China to do anything likely to involve her in serious complica tions. Certainly the United States will go -no farther than to insist upon its treaty rights, which are ample for the protection of our interests in China Under the treaty concluded nearly sixty years ago, before there was any ap pen nince of Russian influence in Man churia, it is provided that citizens of the United States resorting to China for the purposes of commerce shall in no case be subject to other or higher duties than are or shall be required of the people of any other nation whatever, and that if additional advantages and privileges of whatever description be conceded here after by China to any other nation, the United States and the citizens thereof shall be entitled to a complete, equal " and ' impartial participation In the same. Nothing has happened to impair the force of this obligation. On the contrary it has rather been broadened and emphasised by our sub sequent commercial treaties with China. Our right, therefore, to equal trade priv ileges and opportunities In Manchuria Is not due to Russian favor or concession, but is distinctly a treaty right, which our government may properly demand of China shall be respected. . . THE HIOHJOMT COMMISSION. It has been expected that this com mission would reconvene at some time during the present year and again take up the questions awaiting settlement be tween Canada and the United States. givlug the subject of reciprocity chief consideration. It Is now said that the commission will not reassemble, owing to a change of attitude on the part of Canada respecting reciprocity. . This Change la understood to have been brought about by the Chamberlain prop osition for preferential treatment of tb British colonies under a tariff policy yet to' be formulated. It seems almost in credible that the Canadians should take thus seriously the proposition of the co lonial secretary, since the policy he ad vocates Is not likely to be adopted and In any event cannot be for several years, still there is probably substantial foun dation for the statement There is n very strong imperialistic sentiment in the Dominion and to this the Chamber lain program peculiarly appeals. It holds out a promise of advantage over the United States which is very pleasing to a large majority of the Canadian peo ple. It is safe to say that Mr. Cham berlaln car rely upon them for hearty support, if he shall be able to convince them that his policy would operate to the Injury of this country. As to the high Joint commission Its reassembling would be useless so far as reciprocity is concerned, but there are other matters for settlement which would Justify again calling the commission together. ' RELATIOXS OF SB.SATE AKD HOVSK. It is said to be the intention of Repre sentative Cannon and othor house lead ers in the fifty-eighth congress to nssert to the fullest the legislative prerogatives of the house as against the senate. They are determined, according to report, that what they regard as the uudue prepon derance of senate influence in shaping legislation shall no longer be tolerated If they can help themselves and they be lieve they will be in a better position to accomplish their purpose with Mr. Can hoh in the speaker's chair than they have been in a generation, since be will be chosen to that position without any senatorial influence. Besides, the 111! nols leader has always been one of the most earnest champions of the leglsla the prerogatives of the house, having In the closing hours of the lost congress made a stirring speech in which be de clared that a small body of senators bad taken the house by the throat and wa endeavoring to force that body to enact legislation which Its members were well ware was of au improper character and would take trout U treasury money for which the government would receive no equivalent. There wos a very strong feeling shown by representatives In the last house In regard to what was deemed an over bearing attitude toward that body on the part of the senate, but the disposi tion to resent the encroachments of the upper body was not sutflciently general to have any effect. The spirit of protest then manifested, however, may easily grow in the next house and It appears that arrangements are being made with a view to stimulating it. It is unques tionably the duty of the house to insist upon and protect its legislative rights and there Is no doubt that it will have popular support in doing so. In recent years the senate has arrogated to Itself prerogatives the authority for which was questionable and this tendency will cer tainly grow if allowed to. The intention of the house leaders to maintain the rights of that body is altogether com mendable. THERE MUST BS SOME MISTAKE. Among the appointments made by Mayor Moores and confirmed by the council is that of Paul II. Patton for the position of city electrician. This selection is absolutely at variance with the specific provisions of the charter prescribing the qualifications of a city electrician. The charter provision reads as follows: The city electrician shall be a practical electrical engineer of not less than five year' actual experlcnoe as superintendent of electrical construction work or electrlo light or power station. He shall thor oughly understand the principles of the telegraph, telephone and electric light and power construction. The appointment of the mayor must be accompanied with an exhibit of the several works and their nature which have been supervised by uch appointee. He shall have charge of all city electrlo light, telephone and tele graph lines and plants and the supervision of all electric appliance with the city, and hall have power to enforce all rule and regulations of the city In connection with their use and construction. He shall In spect all public electric light of the streets and other public places and perform such other duties aa may be required by ordi nance. Mr. Patton, so far as we can learn, lacks the essential qualifications for the performance of the duties of city elec trician. His electrical engineering ex perience has been confined to the Inspec tion of telephone wires and telephone switch boards. He has had no experi ence whatever In electric lighting and has never turned his hand over in any electric light or electric power work. Now that the water company has named its appraiser it may not be diffi cult for the two to agree on the third, so that the work of appraisement may be begun at an early day. Inasmuch as the Ity knows little or nothing about the man who will represent it on the ap praisement board, would it not be well to extend an Invitation to bin) to present himself for conference with the water board, tho mayor and council, so that we may know to what extent wa can depend on him to represent the city's Interests? The popular demand that custodians of public funds shall give the widest pub licity to their financial transactions has had a very salutary effect, judging from the exhibit Just published by State Treasurer Mortensen, which shows in detail every dollar of money handled in the state treasury, in what banks the public funds are deposited and in what securities the state now holds its permanent school fund. The Board of taucation is next on the list for a tussle with confirmations. Ugly rumor has had it for some time that there are too many incompetent teachers on the salary roll. Will the board have the nerve to meet the Issue or will It, as usual, simply put off the evil day? Deputy Labor Commissioner Bush is said to be busy preparing for the com pilation of the biennial report of the state labor bureau. When Mr, Bush gets through with that laborious farce the compilation will bo filed in the archives for future reference. Denver polled only about 60 per cent of its vote In the municipal election Just held, notwithstanding that the campaign was one of the most hotly waged in its local history. The new of woman suffrage must be wearing off. If any of the drowned out establish' ments of the Hool-Btrleken cities are bent upon seeking a new location, our Commercial club ought to be able to offer them a choice of fine, high, dry and healthy sites in Omaha. Hataro Sllpa m Cos. New York Tribune. Floods In the west and drouth In the east! Can any one strike a satisfactory balance by a reaaonable method of adjust ment? Balance on tbo Rlarht Bid. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. treasury surplus of about 144,000,000 Is In prospect for the fiscal yeai' ending with the present month. The war taxes were abolished last year, but the republican balance on the right side is stUl entirely satisfactory. Courage la nn Kmreney. Chicago News. It 1 pleasing to know that somebody in the War department ha sense and courage enough to cut through several yards of red tape when occasion requires. The oppor- tunlty to give relief to the flood sufferers through Judicious us of military store Is one of theaa occasion. Sample of Franchise Grafting;. St. Paul Pioneer Press. Right In the midst of the prosecutions now going on In St. Louis, largely growing out of the dishonest us of corporation fund to Influence the grant of valuabl franchise without compensation to the city, the Terminal association of St. Loula applies for an extremely valuable addition to It franchises, and loftily resent any Idea of payment therefor. The "good ac crulng to the city" from It enterprise affect to deem sufficient, without dlvldin with the municipality any portion of Its profit. Regardless of moral, and a purely business proposition, It would seem as . though, U a city Is to got nothing In any event from such franchise. It makes Do difference to the people how much the "boodlera" fleece the corporation to -which they are given. Great Lorrri of Liberty. Chicago Chronicle. Having blown up a bank and killed a number of Innocent people in order to at tract the attention of Europe to their wrongs, the Macedonian announce that they will now proceed to scatter the In fection of bubonic plague throughout Europe for the same purpose. These Mace donian evidently are great lovers of liberty. Mighty Task of Assimilation. New Tork Tribune. Multitude of immigrants are pressing with constantly Increasing number into the New York gateway of North America. Four thousand newcomer passed through the building on Ellis Island In a day, and a single vessel has brought 2,900 steerage passenger across the Atlantic. 1 this re public likely to become a weary Titan under the mtglrty task of assimilating all thl ex traneous material for citizenship? Prospective Tariff Win. St. Louis Republic, Mr. Chamberlain' policy of a retaliatory tariff war against the United State and Germany may ultimately lead all the great power to enter into a mora earnest and sympathetic study of the merits of reci procity. Wars of any sort are calamitous, and the lowering of tariff walla already In existence would contain more promise of international benefit and general prosperity than the upbuilding of new tariff walls for the sake of revenge. "Fla-hUn Joe" Ipaaks. Boston Herald. General Joe Wheeler puncture that story about his having got the eold shoulder at the recent reunion of hi confederate com rade In arm down In New Orleans for having worn hi blue uniform on that occa sion. The fact is that General Wheeler didn't wear his blue uniform, but arrayed himself In the ordinary garments . of a civilian. So nobody will be compelled either to criticise General Wheeler for lack of tact In wearing the blue on an occasion when gray was the fashion, or to denounce the southern veterans for turning up their nose at nothing. TRULY "SPORT OF - KINGS." Contesting for the America' Cup En title to the Kane. Cleveland Leader. Horse racing ha ever been a pastime of those comparatively, if not absolutely, rich. The Indian of the plain who could distinguish themselves in the contests of their barebacked ponle were the posses or of animal which the poorer members of their tribes could not own. The lace horses of the Arab of the deserts, whether In Asia or In the northern and northeast ern part of Africa, have always been highly valued. They do not belong to men of ordinary mean. " In more complex and luxurious societies swift and stanch horses have been so costly and so monopollxed, aa a rule, by the rich, that horse racing w long ago tyled "the sport of kings." It till bo expensive and o fashionable among tho wealthy and powerful that the oia saying naraiy needs explanation- or comment. But If the use of race horses for glory or prizes Is sport for men with regal purses, what shall be said of such yacht racing as the' struggle' for the America's cup brings on this year? - If horae racing Is kingly in its cost- and its pomp, the favorite sporting venture" of a very rich British baronet is truly Imperial. The Llpton squadron, - as It ha been styled, with good reason,. I leaving British waters with about 170 men employed. It carries thousand of dollars' worth of supplies for the entertainment of the owner and hi guests. The vessels ' have been Insured for hundred of thousand of dol lar. When they reach ' this country they will be a veritable foreign flotilla, though welcomed warmly and wholly amicable In purpose. For many weeks before the In ternational races the Llpton yacht will be tried against one another, and msny thousand of dollars will be spent In pre. paring the challenger for the America's cup, bo that every Inch of distance possible shall be won In the final struggle for the international championship of the sea. All of which Ib sport that demands more than the wealth of many king. It Is pos Bible only to a few of the richest men of the times. It makes the proverbial "sport of kings" seem cheap by comparison. In ternatlonal yacht racing, for the highest honors of Great Britain and the United States, Is what deserve that name better than any contest with horae. NOT EAST - TO AGREE. Task Ahead for the Alnkaa Bonndary Connliiloa, Washington Post. This are a hung Jury," la a sign said to have been displayed in an Alabama court. and according to the view of a number of public men thl same sign might well be placed over th door of the Alaskan com mission which la to assemble next Septem ber In London. With three members from each side and a contention In which both parties have displayed a great Interest, It would be almost a miracle If anything but a disagreement on a'l disputed point should be the result. The Canadian have not got all they want In the present modus Vivendi, but it la far better than If the commission should agree to the American contention. It Is not at all probable that the American commissioner will make any further con cessions than were made in the modus of October 20, ISM. It 1 not likely that one man" of either side will reach a conclusion different from his fellow member and vote against his country, making the necessary majority for a conclusion, so It would seem that a practically unanimous agreement must be reached or none. Shou'd there be disagreement on all the vital point It would raise an Interesting question as to how long the present modus shall last. Thl Interesting document does not flx any date for It termination. "It I hereby agreed." says ttfa modus vlvendl, "between the governments of the CnJted States and of Great Britain that the boundary line between Canada and the Territory of Alaska In the region about the head of Lynn Canal shall be-provisionally fixed a follows, without prejudice to the claims of either party In the permanent adjustment of the International boundary." Then follows a description of the tempor ary line. The disputed points are "pro visionally fixed." but who can say for how long? 'These lines do not prejudice the contentions of either party In the "l r manent adjustment" of the boundary, thus Implying that a permanent adjustment must be made. Americans In the region affected did not like the modus, and claimed that Great Britain got much the best of It. and that the Canadian line was advanced far beyond what has always been consid ered the boundary line by American. Or. caslonally there hav been complaint from that quarter, but for th most part the people seem content to await the "per manent adjustment" of the dispute. Now If th present commission does not reach an agreement the "permanent adjustment" will be postponed, and the boundary line will remain "provisionally fixed" by the modus. If there should be no "permanent adjustment," would It go on forever? If not, who would break It? Certainly th modus Is a very Interesting document. KXPOKTS Or MAM FACTtMlSS. Increase la Foretaa Demand Shown In tha Honoris. Chicago Kecord-lierald. The higit-watcr iwui m our export of manufaclureu article wa in tuo fiscal year of 1mm, when Ui value of the good w cent abroad was In round numbers 434,UOU,0uO. By lDul the total had fallen to about 4o4,U0u.uuu. Thus tar thl ytar, how ever, a lignt Inciutme i noticeable, equivalent to a little lea than 1 per cent over last year, 'in exports in the month of April wtre especially good, reaching bout 140,000,000, and surpassing any other Ingle month In our history with the ex ception ot March and May, 1900. In two line of manufactured article there ha been a heavy falling off In trade thl year aa compared with last namely, In Iron and steel products and In icfined mineral oil. Our Bales of Iron and steel have been limited by the heavy demand for home consumption, while as for the oil England, China and Japan have greatly reduced their demand. Leaving these two Industrie out of ac count, however, the figures for the ten months of the fiscal year ending with April how a gain In exports of manufactures of about $14,000,000 over the same month last year, and there are very few Industries In tha list that do not have their share In It. Tb foreign demand for agricultural Im plement has been exceptionally strong. Canada and Argentina have offered excel lent markets, while the trade with British Africa, though comparatively email, has quadrupled. Manufacturer of Instrument and apparatus for scientific pupose. under which heading telephone and telegraph ap pliances are listed, have also done well, their exports showing an increase of about 60 per cent. Another good gain Is In tha trade In manufactured wood, though here It Is our doors, sashes and blinds that seem to be In Increasing demand abroad, and not our furniture. Our foreign trade In cotton manufactures show a gain of substantial total, though of comparatively small percentage. It ap pears that what little trade In this line we have with Europe Is decreasing, and that the heavy trade with China I also falling off, but that extensions are being made in other region which much more than make up for the losses. The gain has been In the exports of colored cloth and of wearing apparels, while the exports ot uncolored cloth have declined. CHIOH AGAINST UNION. What Was Savoo for tho Goose Is Being; Offered to the Gander." Collier's Weekly. 8oclal history In these days Is made fast. Rere we have employers turning them selves into unions, like the laborers, and there we have the courts enjoining the em ployer from conspiring against union labor, for all the world like the Injunctions which have been Issued on the other side. What has been sauce for the goose Is being offered to the gander. The rules are being shuffled up and distributed In opposite di rections. Meantime, the public looks on cheerfully and heartily wishes that the best cause, in each particular ease, may win. If you are building a house, and two unions are striking against each other, the situation is not bo funny, but If you have no personal Interest you can see all these details as Incidents In the moat Interesting development of our era. Bullets and battles and heavy battalions generally are begin ning to bore the more reflective minds. Force has become a "chestnut." The solu. tlon of human rights by the bayonet is now approved only when it Is applied to nations of a civilisation different from our own. Here In America we want things to be worked out In th realm of thought. The courts have been making Important decisions about the rights of organized labor, of organised capital, and the people are thinking Just as hard ns the courts. If labor throws a brick we regret It, and dis approve, but not in a self-righteous pas sion, for we remember that while labor was throwing the brick, capital was bay ing a senator, thus breaking a law as Im portant as the law against violence, Neither bricks nor bribes are the worthiest argument, and public opinion condemns them both. More Interesting, however. than the faults of the combatants, are the essential right involved. The solution ' of them Is of far deeper Import than the con demnation of either party for Irregularity, On the surface there t much scolding over inconvenience and unreason, but under neath 1 the national desire that Justice be done, though It cost something to us all. PERSONAL, NOTES. Prof. Bell think he ha gone a long way toward solving the flying machine problem. Here's hoping that he's not "up in the sir." Robert von Keudell. who recently died, aged nearly 80. used to be called "Bis marck's right hand," and he wa wont to say that he and Bucher were the busiest men In the Department of the Exterior. He wa noted for his musical talent, and often played for Bismarck. HI memory wa bo good that he could play the piano for hours without notes. James Hnzen Hyde, vice president anil chief stockholder In a New Tork life In surance society, is said to be rlated for Iho position of ambassador to France. Mr. Hyde ha devoted a great deal of time to training himself for the pla.'e named. Hi warmest friend abroad !s Prsident Loulmt and he Is perhap better known amon Parisians than liny oth?r American. Dr. Alexander Graham B-1l, the telephone Inventor, denl'-s that he Is polng to enter the airship competition c the St. Louis exposition. Dr. Bell says that while he ha achieved - some remarkable result with kite they will not be In any sense living machines for some time to come. At aome future day developments may Induce him to make an Independent aerial appai-ntu. With the death last week of "Old Cari bou Brown" there passed sway one of the most picturesque character In all the fron tier history of the great southwest. Henry F. Brown, famed in sporting circle of the southwest under the sobriquet of "Caribou Brown," wa for a quarter of a century one of th notable figure In the rambling circles of that part of the country. He riled at the age of 87. "Caribou Brown" wa a native of County Limerick. Ireland, vnd in hi early manhood followed the aea a cap tain of a merchantman. Brown for quar ter of a century made hi various home at Tucson, Tombstone, Preacott and Phoe nix. He made and lost a doxen fortunes over th gambling table, but throughout hi checkered career he maintained tha name of being honest. He died at Tucson, Art. Joseph B. Greenhut of Chicago, whs I about to go to Europe for the purpose cf studying the condition pertaining to the Jew In Russia, and who will report Ills finding to the International Hebrew com mittee, I known In the west a a wealthy capitalist. Mr. Greenhut wa born at thi military post of Telnlts, Austria, on Feb ruary. IS. IMS, and went to Chicago Khan he wa year old. In response to Lin coin's first call for volunteer he enlisted a a private in the Twelfth Illinois reel ment. and at the battle of Fort Donelsou waa seriously wounded. He waa trncmbly discharged and returned to Cnlcago, but six month later recruited a company cf Infantry, of which he waa elected captain. and which wa assigned to na Eighty-second Illinois, with the army of the Potomac Mr. Greenhut returned to Chicago and turned bis attention to mercantile puisults ROIKD AllOt T NEW TORK. Ripples on tho t nrrent of Life in tho Metropolis. Gossip In New Tork I busy with th domeatlo affair of the young ducheas ot Marlborough, formerly Coneuela Vanderbllt. In circles where Bhe hone before captur ing a coronet the rumor I current that sh will return to her native land this Bummer and will never return to England. Strength I given to the rumor by the stoppage of im provement In the Marlborough town hou In London. The duke Is Bald to be tired of his conjugal fetters. Th ducal estate ha been rescued from bankruptcy and put In first-class order by Vanderbllt money, and the financial charm which attract de generate nobility to American heiresses have In thi Instance largely passed away. In fact. It I Bald, what little heart ths duke has belongs tq another. The discord of the family In year past are matter of International knowledge, and they hav not Improved much since the duke's fathar-ln- law, William K. Vanderbllt. took him by the throat In a club room and was about to "mop the floor with him" when trie ids Interfered. There are no husbands like I American husbands and no place like home for American heiresses. The celebration of the JOOth anniversary of the settlement of New Tork has brought out some curious facts connected with th early history of th city. On of these re lates to the sharp practice of Aaron Burr In obtaining a bank charter In 1799. At that time Alexander Hamilton and Burr war professional and political rivals In New Tork, one as a leader of the federal and the other of the democratic party. As sec retory of the treasury under Washington and organiser of the Treasury department. Hamilton had much prestige aa a financier, and he and some of his federalist friend had organised the Bank of New Tork. To head off his rival on that 11ns Burr de termined to organise a bank also, but th question wa how to obtain a charter with out attracting publlo attention. To accom plish thl Burr and hi friend went before th New Tork legislature with a bill for the establishment of the Manhattan water works. Ths bill waa passed and signed by the governor, and six months later the Bank of the Manhattan Company was opened. When Hamilton and friends began to Investigate the question of th bank's charter they found that the water works bill contained a clause providing "that it shall be lawful for the Bald company to employ all such surplus capital as may belong or accrue to the said company In the purchase of publio or other stocks, or in other money transactions or operations not inconsistent with th constitution and laws of this state or of the United States, for tho sol benefit of said company." That settled the charter question, and the Man hattan bank has continued In business from that time to the present. A outious feature of the case Is that the company has always felt obliged under Its charter to maintain the semblance of a water works plant This plant consists of a three-story brick buljd lng within the old city limits, containing a pump and reservoir. This pump Is run by a "donkey" engine, and th reservoir, of Iron, is between fifteen and twenty feet deep by about thirty-five feet in diameter. The pump la worked twice a week and throws water from a well Into th reser voir. A remarkable Instanos of conjugal affec tion was revealed last Sunday when at th coroner's office letters of Mrs. Goldstein Garllng, who committed suicide a few days ago, were' opened. Early last month her husband died of a contagious disease on North Brother Island, and in tho letter read today Mr. Garllng told her friend that she had promised her husband that Bhe vould take her life If he did not re cover. She told pathetically of the suffer ing she had endured since her husband's death. "He lived for me," she wrote, "and I will die for him. Two hearts cannot bo separated by death, and I am now going to Join my husband." In her will Mrs. Gar llng said she wanted all of her friends to come to her house after the funeral and divide the furniture among them to keep as remembrances of her and her husband. This Is what a prominent New Tork hat ter "has to say: "Of course, we notice no Interest In Panamas, although this decreas ing demand is not unexpected. Panamas were killed by cheap Imitations, and the only alternative In summer headgear 1b the ordinary straw hat. There are some In dividuals who will wear expensive Pana mas, especially In the country, but In town they will be few and far between. We are not advising the purchase of Panamas. 'Sennet' straw, .a smooth coarse braid. Is the proper thing." Another hatter mad this statement: "Panama are down and out and will never be In fashion again. Too many men have a $30 hat In thetr clos ets and no chance of using It. There are some Panamas in the street, but they are last year's product, and I wouldn't allow one of these hats to leave my store before saying definitely thnt Panamas are out of date aa hopelessly a cocked hats. The 'sennet' straw hat is the thing and is ten times cheaper than a Panama." John Wsnamaker Is to have a 13.000,000 store on Broadway, between Eighth and Ninth streets. The structure 7111 be four teen stories In hetsht, rising 717 feet above the curb level, fronting on Broadway 18S feet 2 Inches. 187 feet 10 Inches on Fourth nventio, feet on Ninth street and S39 feet on Elffhth street. On the second floor there will be a large music hall for the entertainment of visitors. The facades will be Bedford stone for the flrst three stories and ornamental terra cotta for the eleven upper stories. There will be exterior Are escapes of ornamental Iron. All the eleva tors will be of fireproof construction and there 1b to be Installed a complete fire extinguishing apparatus. According to the New Tork Press one of the richest business men In that city never allows himself to work more than five hours a dny. In hi youth he worked eighteen hours. Hi almost constant companion for twenty year, and for a while hi business associate, has kept up the elghteen-hour habit. He I a rich a his friend, hut ha not the faculty of enjoying anything be sides work. At 60 he plods quite as hard aa he did at M. Result he Is a narrow minded bigot with chronic Indigestion. The five-hour man Is brosd-gsuged, happy, healthy. He accomplishes mere In five hours than the other does In eighteen. A tower 750 feet high, about 200 feet Mjrhor than Washington monument. I nlnnned for th termlnsl of th New Tork Central railroad st . Forty-second street. The shaft will be lAWIM feet at It base, and a clock with a dial twenty-seven feet across Is proposed for the left, and a power ful beacon light may be placed at the top of the structure. FORMFR SENATOR IN TROUBLE Mel.nnrln af Sooth Carolina May Hav to Pay Note Twlee. NEW YORK, June 1 Former United State Senator John I McLaurln of South Carolina Is concerned In a controversy over a note for tV.Pon which, made by him on April ?1. was payable In one month at th Mercantile National bank. New York. It waa not paid at maturity. The note wa presented to th Guardian Trust company by former Senator Me Lauiia and th money paid. In aa affl- davit Mr. McLaurln says he paid the money to Frank A. Umstead of Worcester, Ma., the endorser. Deputy Sheriff Cronln ha received an attachment against Umstead In favor of the holder of the protested note. A certificate for 16.809 share of stock of the Brunswick Birmingham railway of Gnnrgla was attached. The former senator Is quoted aa having said that a large sum of hi money and that of hi friends may be Involved. SMILING REMARKS. Miles How did Do Jones get to be such a confirmed woman hater? Giles oh, he was a floor walker In a dry good tore for seven year. Chicago New. Nell I she a society woman? Belle Yes, Indeed. She belongs to no less than eighteen societies for the sup pression of as many things. Philadelphia Record. Mr. Dick I saw something today that made my hair stand up on end. Mrs. Dick What waa It? Mr. Dick A comb. Connies whenever 1 you you are reading a novel. Tou don't mean to say you r nmemher all of them? Short Dear me, no: Its because I don t remembor them I like to read them. Boston Transcript. "Great divinities!" exclaimed the shade of Nero, watching the automobile rsce. "Could I have had a bunch of them what sights of royal carnage the arena would have seen!' Chicago Tribune. Daughter I'm so rled you haven't athat horrid dyspepsia tonight father, dear. ratner ye, bo rood or vou to take uch an Interest In your poor old father. uaurnter i ao hate to see vou in a baa humor. By the way. I think George er that la, Mr. Tlmmld. will speak to you to night. Philadelphia Press. Te Why didn't you speak to her? Bhe met yon with a smile of reconciliation on her face. Jess Tea. her fsre was what yon might call "reconciled," wasn't It? Teas Reconciled? Jons Yes. that mean "made up," you know. Philadelphia Press. "So you have decided to get another phy sician. ' "I have." answered MY. Cumrox. "The Idea of his prescribing flaxseed tea and mustard plasters for people as rich aa we am" Washington Star. "What kind of breskfnst food hav vou?" Innu'red the New Yorker in the Boston hotel. "Wa have pumpkin, custard, apple and meringue pie," replied the waiter, care fully adjusting his glasses. Tonkers States man. "Why don't you make a plain, straight forward statement about whether or not youmesn to be a candidate?" "What's the use?" answered the prudent politician. "Just at present th only thins; that's keeping me before the public la the doubt on that question." Washington Star. "GIVE ME OLO MrSIC." Mrs. B. L. Parmalee In Rochester Times. Give me old music, for my spirit faints For some strong spell to touch fond memory's string; For some sweet song of old. whose magic paints With brilliant hues the shades which Borrows fling. Give me old musio, that whljh thrilled the heart When youth's warm hopes and sunny skies were mine. Ere disappointment pierced me with its dart, And friendship knew no flight or love decline. Give me old music, that to which the dead In years long past have listened to and praised. Oh, with their presenc can our love hav fled. That memory basks not In th visions raised. Give roe old musio, for th world's chill hand Hath cast Its fetters on my drooping oul. And childhood's freshness flees at Its com- mand, " - And cold suspicions like a torrent roll. Forglv me, that I may not lova thy lay; The past with musio Is so sweetly twined That round each song of old such raptures play As touch tha heartstrings with a power refined. Oh. when ths world grows dark and hopes expire. And the heart sickens In the glare of day. Hew soms old strata wakes up the latent fire And calls our freshness from Its swift decay. In the far spirit land shall all be new; No sound, no strain, to whisper of the past, Must we blest memory's hallowed power subdue? How tasteless, then, ths Joys around us cast. Give me old musio, for the cottar door Bound which In thoughtless Infancy I strayed At Its oommand, stands open as before; Within the lute on which my grand sir played. And hush that strain It echoes In my heart. Whence comes it with Its mighty power to quell -Th fearful thoughts which into being start. With strength too deep for human words to telL Whence oomsa it on ths wild wind's mighty breath? Doth darkness nurse it In Its secret bower? Bay, is It mightier than the conqueror death. Or fragile as ths bright, sweat, sum mer flower? I know not aak not since beneath Its wing My weary spirit finds a calm repos. 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