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0 TIIE UMATIA DAILY BEE; TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1003. Tiie Omaha Daily Bee. K. ROSE WATER, EDITOR. PUBU8HED EVERT MORNINO. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. D-illr Bre (without Sunday), One Yeor..$t "J Dalhv Hee anit Sunday, One Year J Illustrated Bee, One Year "JJ Sunday One Year -J Bnt'iiflny One Year J-j Twentieth Century Farmer. One Year.. 1.00 DELIVERED BY CARRIER, pally Bee (without Sunday), per ropy.... le pally Hee (without Sunday), per week ..13o Dally lies (Including Sunday), per week.Le Sunday Hee, per ropy Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week, ae Evening Bee (Including Sunday), per,, week lnc Complaint el Irregularities In delivery hould be addressed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omaha The Pee building. South Omaha Cltv Ha'.l Building, Twenty-fifth and M Streets. Council Bluffs 10 Pearl Street Chicago 1640 Cnlty Building. New York ZO Park Row Building. Washington 501 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit bv draft, express or postal order, fayable to The Bee Publishing Company. nly 2-cent stamp accented In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISH INQ COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of NobraskA, Douglas County ,! George- B. Tischuck, secretary ot The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, ays that the actual number ot full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the month or May. lvo. was a louuwa; ...80,mM ...SO,TB ...30.SOO ...ao.Boo . . ,o,t:m ...as.sTo ...30,70 17..... 28.450 18 81,030 1 30,780 JO 8O.H0O 21 30.H70 2 30.04O J3 30,H30 24 a,230 26 30.H30 2ft 30,71)0 27 3O.7B0 28 SO.uHO 2J 30,(MIO 30 31.W0 il 2T.UOO 1 30.N10 I 80,740 10 H7.T7B U 30,4 M) 12 ai,a7 13 80,(M0 14 30,730 IS 30.USO It 80,lttO Total 9B8.0O0 Less unsold and returned copies 10,34t Net total sales 04JI.SM Net average sales 80.4-'lT GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 81st day of May, A. D. 1903. M. B. HUNOATE, (Seal.) Notary Public. If the Union Pacific strike can be set tled satisfactorily to both sides, so can the strike In the local building trades. The Denver Times headed Its appeal for relief for the flood sufferers with Its own subscription of $200. How much did the World-Herald put' In? . When It comes to "get rich quick" schemes and green goods speculations Omaha may always be depended upon to furnish a few credulous victims. If there Is any satisfaction In having the last , word in the dispute over the alleged Postbfflee department Irregulari ties, Mr. Tulloch ought to feel better. With a flood and preparations for a World's fair on Its hands at the same time, St Louis people certainly have their share of the white man's burden. Now that we have passed from wet to dry and cold to hot,' we may antici pate a change In the day's greetings: "Oh. how hot It Is, isn't It?" "Isn't it awful r If the coming crop of graduates will only remember all the good advice given to them In baccalaureate sermons, the world's mlllenlum will not seem so far away. - Omaha will welcome any power plant project that will give It cheaper power as a stimulus to manufacturing enter prises, but it has had so many promises in this line that it will prefer to see the goods delivered before celebrating. Complaint is regularly made that our Judiciary are altogether too poorly paid to compensate for the services ren dered, but we notice that whenever a vacancy on the bench heaves in sight there Is no dearth of good lawyers will ing to throw themselves into the breach For the present, all the reforms In po lice aduilhstratlon and supervision In Omaha and South Oiunlut will have to be instituted by the police boards of the two ' cities without Interference from Governor Mickey. So much of home rule, at least, is concedod by the gov ernor. 1 The demnnd made by Kev. Newell Dwlght Ilillis of Brooklyn for a merger of the churches on the same plan as tiie industrial combinations Is not likely to find immedlata favor with other pastors. A church combine con ducted on lines of. systematic economy might leave without employment half of the ministers now 'on the payroll. Fourteen thousand miles of railroad travel by the presidential party without even a hot box bespeuks volumes, not so much for the roads over which the special passed, as for the eflicloury of the engineers, firemen,." brakemeu and others, who made up the train crews. charged with the responsibility of tak ing the distinguished pnHseiigrrs to each succeeding poiut ot destination. The Jews of all the countries of .urope are saia to look to America as offering the only hope of relief for the oppressed Jews of Russia. This has been the history of all religious and political persecutions since the Ameri can republic was established. America is the typical laud of the free and tho victims of oppression In the old monar chies naturally turn to America for a haven of refuge. Ak-Sar-Ben has sent put bis Invita tions to join the royal cavalcade for 1903 and the responses should be prompt and plenty. There Is uo good reason why anyone who has belonged to the Ak-Sar-Ben organisation should bang back to be personally solicited to get In again. The bust Hug committee has enough to do to impress new mem bers Into service. Fill out your .appli cation and send it in without .wailing to b urged. . - . JCHT1C TOR TUB RACKS. The pronouncement of t ths Ohio republican platform in favor of Justice for the negro race will command the earnest attention of the country and is likely to arouse a sentiment which will mske this subject an issue in our na tlonul politics. A great many people are disposed to underestimate the im portance of this question. They are willing to believe that it is a matter of merely passing interest, to be casually discussed and passed over as of no great consequence. No greater mistake could be made. It is a question of the most vital impor tance to the whole American people, in volving consequences vital to our repub lican institutions and to our national peace and welfare. There is today a well-defined Issue between the north and the south in regard to the rights of the colored man. On the one hand is the proposition that every right and privilege allowed to the colored man under the amendments of the constitu tion shall be secured to bliu. On the other hand is the assertion, embodied In law, that the negro shall not have the constitutional . privileges and rights ac corded him by the federal constitution, but shall be subjected to state laws in utter disregard of the organic law of the nation. There is presented in this a very serious and vital problem, which the American people will sooner or later have to deal with in the most practical way. The Ohio republican platform declares firm adherence to every amendment which the civil war wrote "into our country's constitution as bind ing in honor upon every American citi zen." It asserted that everywhere the doctrine of equity in the exercise of the elective franchise, declaring that "Jus tice requires any state excluding any of its citizens from the ballot to be propor tionately reduced In its representation in the electoral college and the lower house of the national congress." This declaration on the part of the Ohio republicans is not a challenge but a warning. It simply says to the south that the north demands and expects political fairness and Justice and will be satisfied with nothing less. It is a perfectly fair position which the repub licans of Ohio take and it will be ap proved by the party, It is not to be doubted, in every northern state. DAUaOK FROM DROUTH. While the damage from the floods In the west is estimated at many millions, the disaster is small as compared w)th the estimated injury from the drouth in the eastern states, which, destroyed practically all vegetation and left that entire region almost barren of vegeta tion.' According to reports, New Eng land has never In all Its history suffered so severely from drouth as it has this summer and the conditions there are at this time' of the most unfortunate char acter. , .. ' r The Springfield Republican says that people do not realize the extent of the losses being incurred by the dry spell and It refers to calculations made by the secretary of the Boston Home Mar ket club as showing what that section of the country has suffered from this season's drouth. The figures compiled by this trustworthy authority show that there has already been a loss to New England agriculture amounting to con siderably over $100,000,000 and it is probable that this sum will be found to be considerably inside the real u mount In reference to this the Spring field Republican says: "This is not all. Almost entirely dependent upon home grown feed is a great livestock and dairy Industry whose principal value in 1899 for New England was placed at about $75,000,000. Farmers in northern New England are already beginning to sacrifice livestock because of present luck of pasturage and in anticipation of a serious scarcity of winter feed. Hay Is rising to unprecedentedly high prices In Vermont and elsewhere. There seems to be no possibility of escaping comparative scarcity and very high prices for feed of all kinds, which In turn will affect the prices of dairy prod ucts, increasing the cost of living in the cities nnd reducing the consumption of nvnmifiictured products among the farmers. What is true of New England Is equally true of all eastern New York state and New Jersey, where farmers ore selling off their livestock and pre paring for a season of great scarcity." There Is nothing sensational or over drawn In this statement of the condi tions In the eastern states. The drouth in that section has been of the most destructive character and it will prob ably be found that the losses to farm ers there nre even greater than Is now estimated. The drouth has been unprecedented, so far as any record shows, and certainly this is the case as to the extent of injury done. More than ever ..before, therefore, the east will be dependent, upon tho west for Its supply of vegetables, which means more remunerative prices to the farmers of the west for all of their products. Heavy losses have been suf fered In this section of he country, through storms and floods, but they are really small In comparison with the disastrous consequences of the eastern drouth. The frankness of Populist National Committeeman Kent is certainly to be commended. V..Vritlng an answer to a tequest for his opinion of the condition nud prospects of the populist party he declares that, "personally, I think the people's party as a party is dead, tout alt that was true In Its principles re mains true still and will to the end." Fortunately he does not undertake to tell Just how many of the populist principles were true and are still true, although ' lie concedes theyVre jiot suihVleut to nourish the deftlmi ' Infant Slid keep it from mortuary collapse. It Is a great deal, however, for a man like Mr. Kent, occupying official poai- tlon In the party, to admit that It Is dead, notwithstanding that his position on the committee Is as representative of the District of Columbia, which cannot and never could contribute any Votes to Its support. BRASS BAUD CHARITY. Take heed that ye do not your alms be fore men, to be seen of them, otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which Is in heaven. ' , 1 Therefore, when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and In the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, they have their re ward. But When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy light hand doeth; that thine alms may be in secret, and thy Father who seeth In secret Himself shall reward thee openly. Matthew, Chapter VI. , Newspapers, like men, may be Judged by their acts and not by their vain glorious, boasting. Brass band charity as a medium of advertising newspaper benevolence with other people's money does not conform with the Ideals which The Bee and Its editor have set for themselves either as a stimulant to pop ularity or patronage. The brazen throated blasts of the World nerald to advertise its achievements in the way of public charities and relief would pass unnoticed were it not for the uncalled for and Invidious comparison It has seen fit to Institute with its latest effort at self-glorification. In the truly charitable spirit that per meates our amiable contemporary The Bee is stigmatized as "the meanest paper that has ever come out of a printing press," and in the recital of its own countless distributions of public charity The Bee Is pointed out as the paper that has never yet contributed "to the alle viation of human distress and in every Instance has sought to discourage work ers engaged in such laudable undertak ings." On this score The Bee has only the to say that its work of charity has not been conducted on Pharisee lines, and without boasting it -points to the fact that it has contributed more to char itable Institutions nnd public enterprises in any one year than the World-Herald has done altogether since It came Into existence. But it has not found It neces sary to advertise its benefactions, which Include not merely most of the religious and benevolent institutions in Omaha, but a respectable number In the state of Nebraska as well as elsewhere. One would naturally Infer on reading the chapter of World-Herald setf-glori-flcation that The Bee had never been known to encourage or assist in any act of benevolence or charity. 1 Perhaps It may not be out of place to cite the fact that The Bee raised over $12,000 of con tributions to the heroic school teachers who distinguished themselves by life, saving during the historic blizzard of 1888. And how did the World-Herald conduct ' itself . at that period? After making the most strenuous efforts on behalf of these teachers, and especially Miss Royce, .who had lost both of her feet, ' the editor of The Bee was awak ened at his home at half past two one morning by a World-Herald reporter and asked what he had to say regarding the report that had been sent out by the United Press, for which at that time the World-Herald was western agent that he had embezzled $r,000 of the money contributed to Miss Royce. Not only was this accusation a most In famous libel, but ns a matter of fact Miss Royce received every penny of the principal contributed and 8 per cent In terest on the balance then on deposit. As a matter of fact, also, the delay oc casioned in the settlement, as was well known, was due to the appeals of the people of rialnview that the money be invested either In a life annuity or In bonds In order to protect Miss Royce from the sharks who were trying to bor row the relief runa witnout a proper guaranty. Terhaps the World-Herald has also forgotten that The Bee raised a large fund for the cyclone victims at Brad shaw, and that its refusal In later years to become the medium of charity dis tribution has been largely due to the outrageous treatment received at Its hands in raising the school-teacher bllz- fcard relief funds. An Instance especially cited ns dls creditable to The Bee is its alleged op position to the collection of Chrlstmns presents for the First Nebraska and the raising of the fund to pay the return fare of the regiment from San Fran Cisco to Omaha. There Is absolutely no truth In the first charge and the second Is malicious and misleading. The brass band charity concern started the move- ment for the return of the First Ne- braska for political ends. It was pal pnble from the outset that so large a sum as $30,000 could not be raised by popular subscription and Oovernor Poynter knew as well as anyone that the scheme was Impractical. The only chance was In an agreement on the part at the railroads to accept I O l"s from the state with nn nssuranee of getting an spproprlation through the legisla ture. To bring this about the editor of The Bee made an unsuccessful personal appeal to President Burt and Manager Holdrege, but while the' Kurllngton and Union Pacific magnates had an under standing to make no concession, the Burlington played the winning card through D. E. Thompson, who hnijded In a check for $20,000 and got the trans portation of the troops routed over the Burlington, while the legislature the fol lowing winter refunded the money. Another of the contemptible flings of the World-Herald is embodied in the charge thst The Bee refused to adver tlse the Auditorium guessing contest out of pure meanness. As a matter of fact, The Bee refused to comply with the re quest because In so doing it would have laid Itself liable to prosecution for ad vertising a lottery. Only two years pre viously the federal grand Jury at the Instance of G. M. Hitchcock and Cadet Taylor brought an Indictment against the chief editor and managing editor of The Bee for advertising a newspaper premium scheme that had less of the elements of chance In It than the Audi torium gift enterprise schemes. Although imbued with the belief that charity should begin at home, and while its doors have always been open day and night to men and women of all creeds and races in want of distress, The Bee's horizon of philanthropy has not been circumscribed by the city, limits of Omaha or the state lines of Nebraska. Its columns have at all times been open to appeals for suffering humanity, but it has not seen fit to club its patrons of any class Into making Involuntary dona tions or contributions beyond their own means. Unlike Its brass band contemporary The Bee Is .not a' deadhead In charity enterprises. When It undertakes to raise charity funds It always heads the subscription lists, while the self-glorifying concern seeks to enlist popularity and patronage by dispensing other peo ple's money. It would have been Just as easy for The Bee as for any of Its local contemporaries to solicit money for Christmas gifts. and turn a benevo lent penny by exchanging Its advertis ing for Christmas presents. .Such dis interested benevolence has never been in line with the course of The Bee. Perhaps we may be pardoned for re calling the fact that the editor of The Bee was named by the late Bishop New man to act as chairman of the execu tive committee to raise the $25,000 guar anty fund for the International Metho dist conference and . that he not only raised the amount within thirty days, but paid $250 of his own money into the fund. With these few observations The Bee is content to rest . upon Its record of thirty years as a liberal contributor to enterprises and charities without sound ing the tomtom and without beating the drum to make capital for Itself at other people's expense. This promiscuous shooting by mem bers of the. Omaha police force is ap parently overreaching the limit and calls for repression if not suppression by the police authorities. The mere fact that a prisoner resists arrest Is no Justification for the use of the revolver upon him when the man is not known to be a desperate or hardened criminal and the arresting officer is in no im mediate danger of physical Injury. The lives of the humblest "citizen 'are as much .under the protection of the police as the lives of the highest and they have no right to resort to shooting ex cept when compelled, to do so In self defense. ,We should not wait until some wild marksman In uniform kills an Innocent bystander before putting a stop this bad practice," . An eastern paper -wants to know why Cuba should be nllowed to go to Lon don to borrow . 3800,000 when It ought to find the. money in New York. We presume it 1 simply a case of get ting the best possible bargain. There Is no sentiment .'or prejudice ns between nations when a country tries to place a foreign loan, although It may some times seem preferable to pay a higher rate of Interest as an Incentive to keep the bonds at homo. If American Inves tors want to plant their money in Cuba all they have to do is to put In the best bid. . A Pernicious Example. Philadelphia North American. It Is announced that Salvador Is about to pay one of Its creditors In the United States. The Central American republics will consider this a pernicious precedent. Presidential Oratory. Chicago Record-Herald. President Roosevolt made 26S speeches during his trip, and if. there Is anything In the theory that practice makes perfect he Should now be a pretty fair orator. Destraetlva Extremes, New York Sun. The year 1903 will be remembered In this country sorrowfully as the year of fire and flood. The west 1s obtaining relief from water, and In the order of nature the east must soon obtain relief from drouth. Longs Time Between Floods. Chicago Tribune. It appears from a, study of the records that a flood such as the western country Is suffering from this season takes place only at lnterva's of fifty-nine years. By the time the next one comes, therefore, all but a few of us probably will have retired from active participation, In affairs. Tho Boer Sheridan la Polities. Springfield Republican. General Dewet has become the head of a large political party In the Orange River 'colony. Every Boer returned from a British prison camp at onre Joined Oeneral Dewet's party and It now 'comprises a majority of the white population In the colony. Dewet's trr.wcnctlable attitude gives the British au thorities causa for apprehension anu the prof i rets of harmony In the near future are certainly not bright. Tho Tie that Binds. Philadelphia Ledger. Why should Cuba be allowed to go to It needsT recognise Lo.Tlon to iMirrow the 116.000,000 Do American financiers fall to the importance of maintaining s preponder ant influence In the Island republic naturally hound to us? Do we forget that the. financial tie la In these days far the most Influential of all, and quickly combine with Itself the commercial and the po litical? With prospects so happy, after a year of prosperity under a ober and re sponsible government, Cuba should have no difficulty In getting any reasonable sum In the lTnited States at a lower rate of In terest than It would have to pay abroad. Talkla Wlthont Thinking. Philadelphia Record. Notwithstanding the failure of his nunir.r ous political predictions. Including that of the election of Greeley. Benator Chauncey M. Depew says that President Roosevelt's majority will be the largest ever given to any presidential candidate by the elector! college. lie forgets the majority for Oen eral Grant In 1871. as well as the facts that the electoral vote for George Washington was unanimous and that James Monroe, In 1820, had 131 electoral votes In a total of VU votes In the electoral college. But this Is only Chauncey Depew's loose way of talk' tog. last or THE rOPtXlSTS. Another farewell to tho Party Strangled by Fnslon. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. ' Ex-Senator Marlon Butler, who was at the head of the populist national com mittee at one time, nays that that party will nominate a presidential ticket In 1904. He Is not saying that It will be elected, but . he merely remarks that It will be In the race, and that many persona who otherwise would be found In the "demo cratic ranks will be In a sect by them selves. Butler for a time was a man of soma consequence In politics, but he Is not quoted to any great extent now. His present prediction will serve to call to mind the fact that there was a time when the populists were an element of soma Im portance In publlo affairs. In im the third party which will attract most attention will be the socialist. In the elections ot 1903 the socialists of the country at large cast something like 400,000 votes. There are, of course, two or three divisions of the socialist party. The larger branch, the social democrats, polled nearly 0,000 votes for Debs In 1900. Judging by the strength which they have displayed In the congressional and In some state can vasses since then, the social democrats ought to be able to cast 200.000 or 300.000 votes next year. For a man like Debs that party would be able to make a can vass that the country would be compelled to notloa. But the populist party Is as (dead as the antl-Masonlo party or as John Randolph's quids. Most of the populists of the west have come back to the republicans, where they belonged before the revolt in 1890 and 1892. In the south the bulk of the pops have gone to the democrats, from whom they were drawn originally. None of them under the name of pops are anywere ex tant' in the country. Even Leather lunged Allen of Nebraska has got out of the pop camp, and nobody hears of him any longer. In Its brief career, the popu list party threw some queer people to the surface of politics, but nearly all of them have been dropped back Into oblivion. Butler la the last of the pops .which the country will see. His place is among the socialists, where he will have to go It he Is ever again to get any political recognition. SHARP CRITICISM NO LIBEL. Statements Justified on tho Ground of Their Troth. Chicago Chronicle. The Plymouth (England) Morning News criticised unfavorably a comic musical play called "The Major" which was produced In that city. It cannot truthfully be said that the criticism was either brilliant or profound; It was not even entertaining. The newspaper said that few In the audi ence left the concert hall with any degree of satisfaction; that "although 'The Major' had been described as a play It was com posed of nothing but nonsense of a not very humorous character;" that "the com edy would be Improved if it had a substan tial plot and if some of the sorry stuff were taken out of It," and it was intimated that the actors with a" single exception were no better than the piece In which they appeared. There was nothing any worse than this In the article, but Mr. McQulre, the author, sued the newspaper for libel and obtained a Judgment for $000 damages. The pub lisher took the case up to the court of ap peals and the Judgment was reversed. The master of the rolls, a court officer acting as associate Justice In the appeal court, prepared the - decision In the case. He held that the: offensive article did not exceed the limits of fair criticism and that Vthe Jury had no right to substitute their own opinion of,, the. literary merits of . the work for that of the critic or to try the 'fairness' of the criticism by any such standard." . He added In substance that It was a good thing for the people that there was free criticism In the press and .that they did not have to depend on Juries for criticism of works of literature and art. The magistrate went further and In dorsed the criticism of which complaint had been made. Extracts from the play and stage directions were placed before the court, which concluded Its remarks by saying that "It would hove been a matter of regret for all well-wishers of the stage If the honest crltio were debarred from commenting on the sense of this criticism on such a production." In this case the old English maxim, 'The greater the truth the greater the libel," seems to have been abandoned. The court endorses the alleged libel and Justifies It on the ground of Its truth. PERSONAL XOTES. Ths John Wilkes Booth yarn that comes from Oklahoma would seem to Indicate 1 that the silly season has fairly set In. j Secretary Bhaw will attend' the com mencement exercises of Cornell college at Mount Vernon. Ia., his alma matr, on June 17. Associate Justice Alexander B. Hagner of j the supreme court of the District of Co- I lumbta has retired after serving twenty five years. The estate of the late Thomas B. Reed aggregates more than $400,000 a sum that still constitutes wealth In Portland, though It Is but a poor man's pile In New York City. Page Morris, who goes on the fedci l bench on July 1, was born In Virginia, lived some years in Texas, and later represented Minnesota district In congress for six years. B. E. Pettee, the Inventor of the first paper bag machine, as well as other ap pliances, has Just died In Cleveland. He lived In Philadelphia at one time and later In Bethlehem. Governor LaFollette of Wisconsin has signed the' primary election' bill In his state with a quill pen made from a feather taken from the crown of the war bonnet of the Sioux Indian chief. Red Cloud. The purchase by President Loubet of a chateau and estate in southeast Franca gives the Impression that the president will retire to private life when his term of office Is up. The estate is not far from the president's birthplace, where his mother Uvea Flood news occupies much space In the newspapers nowadays. But It Is not the real feature of newspaper literature. The most Instructive and diverting feature Is the contest between the writers of sum mer resort advertisements and the delic ious poesy of breakfast food announce ments. Both touch a tender spot and Jin gle where Jingles count William Winter, dean of New York dra matic critics, said recently of Jefferson's Rip: "The secret of Its supremacy Is not obscure. It has bewitched the world for the simple reason that It has successfully applied the method of poetic treatment to common things. That Is easily done when you happen to be able to do It but you will not accomplish It unless you were bom with the faculty of the poet." A man who had been a prosperous whole sale grocer at St. Joseph, Mo., thought he could make money more rapidly In Wall street Bo he sold his business two weeks sgo and moved to New York with his fam ily. He got Into the "street" at once and seven hours of each day were devoted to speculation. Last Thursday morning he killed himself In a barber's shop soon after he had started for his office, and It devel oped .afterward that every dollar he took to New York had been lost '. - ITS OP WASHINGTON LIFE. Minor scones ail Incidents Sketched, on tho Spot. Prom I o'clock In the morning until close to I In the evening there are 6.000 typewrit ers grinding out letters for ths govern ment In the various departments. During these hours there are, of course, &,0u0 type writer girls busily thumping the machines. Uncle Bam Is the largest employer of typists In the country and should be the patron saint of the typewriter girl. ' II la pie nicest kind of a man to work for, too. lie pays large salaries and he supplies his workers with everything they want. If a girl expresses a preference for a certain klrfa of a machine she gets It. Bhe does not have to sit down and try to pound a typewriter she does not like. Whenever a new typewriter girl Is em ployed In one of the departments she names the machine and It la purchased for her. The hardest Job ths publlo printer Is booked to tackle soon Is the removal of the nation's' prlntshop from the old to ths new home. This moving Is a stupendous task because of the great weight of metal and machinery. Of type alone there are millions of pounds, there being more than 600,000 pounds of nonpareil In ths last new "dress" bought for the big establishment. Of every letter, figure, punctuation point and other character there Is mors than a bushel measure, this large supply being absolutely necessary In order that there may be no delay In rushing work through on schedule time. Besides the tons of type to be moved there are nearly 100 large and small presses, folding, stitching, pasting and other kinds of machines, to say noth ing of ths hundreds of machines used In the bindery, but which are not of a heavy type. It will cost a heavy aura of money to transfer the material, even for the short distance necessary, and it Is the wish of the department to save both time and money in the moving. The new home of the world's greatest printing office Is a model of beauty and convenience, with a floor space of more than 400,000 square feet. The building Is of steel frame filled In with granite and brick. It Is 4oSxl75 feet, seven stories, with basement and at tic, with vaults running under the entire length of the sidewalks. In the building there are 870 steel columns, enabling the floors to stand a Weight of 83,000,000 pounds. It Is estimated that there Is enough steel in the building, if wrought into rails, to lay a railway track for forty-three miles, and from the other iron and brass fittings seventy-four large locomotives could be built The building is fireproof and Is equipped with Its own heating and lighting plants. There will be more than 7,000 Incandescent electric lights and twelve electric elevators; a complete telephone system; Ice plant to furnish drinking water; crematory fof disposing ' or refuse nnd for heating ths vast quantities bf water that will be needed for the brndery and for other pur poses. In fact, 'every convenience neces sary for the rapid turning out of work and for the comfort of more than 4,000 em ployes are to be supplied.' The new plant will cost something over $2,429,000 and the finishing touches to the Interior are now being given. The walls of the president's new study are of a restful neutral tint and the Im mense portrait of George Washington which harujs above the colonial mantel la perhaps the most' conspicuous object in the room. Although President Roosevelt's literary work-in the strictest Interpreta tion of the phrase has been confined,, since he entered the White House, largely to the preparation of prefaces for certain bosks and Other similar labors of love, It Is known that his heart is still In the work, and he has a number 6f times during the 'past year spoken to friends of the Interest with which he looks forward to the task of writing the history of .Texas, an. under taking upon which he hopes to enter after he retires from the presidency. President Roosevelt Is a very rapid worker. He em ploys dictation to a greater extent than any of his predecessors, but some of his manuscript Is penned with a tine-pointed fountain pen. . . , . Love has laughed at lock.imtths again, oven though they were In the Navy depart' ment, and has found out a way. It seems that a Junior naval officer recently applied for leave of absence because of his ap proaching marriage. The department de clined to give It, having many problems and Important subjects to consider, bat the young officer forced the department's hand. If there were too few officers for duty to let one of them have a short leave he could Increase the dearth by resigning, and re sign he did. Then the department, face to face with this aggravated condition, ylelde i gracefully and on the officer's acceptance of the shortest possible leave promised to let him go to get married. So he withdrew his resignation. The wedding has not taken place yet, but when it does occur It will be a naval affair and no civilian. Uncle Sam's reserve fund, something over 300,000,000, is being counted for the first time in six years. It will take a month to do the Job. The work of counting Is so conducted that there can be no mistakes made except by the most remarkable series of miscalculations, or by collusion among the workers to an extent that has never been known and Is considered practically Impossible. The currency Is packed In bundles of $t,000 bills each. Therefore a $1,000,000 package of $1,000 bills is the same slxe as a $1,000 package of $1 bills. Each of these packages Is broken open and its con THAT HAT . We saw you under yesterday looked rather hot and uncom fortable, and must hare felt so. Let us tell you about the new shapes that have taken the town by storm. The soft, lighl, zephery kind $1.50 ?2.50. And we hare all the otter kinds of "good" straws at from 50c up to f 5.00 and the genuine South American, Fanama at f 10.00. Crash and Duck Outing Uats and Caps, 50c. - , No Clothing Fits Like Ours. R S. WILCOX, Manager. tents eonntad. Such careful record of the work Is kept In the divisions of the treaa. f ury, where money Is handled that It can J bo accurately determined who handled VQ packages of bills at a certain time. Sev eral months sgo a teller In ths subtressury at Chicago was discharged after It ha I been discovered that the treasury wan "short" several hundred dollars and tb.it the theft had been accomplished by tho substitution of coins of defective weight for good ones. Several years sgo by a somewhat similar system plotters made an Inroad of more than $JO,000 on ths sub treasury at New York. Ota RIGHT TO THE NAME. 1 Canadian Objections to SoenklnK of tho I'nlted States as America. Philadelphia Record. The Canadians complain of what they call Yankee presumption in speaking of the United States as America. They are newly exasperated by the removal of the official shield over the entrance of our embassy In London, which read "Fmbassy of the United States" and the substitution of om. on which is Inscribed n the brightest ot gold letters: "American Umbassy." Mr. Choato has conformed to this change by having his cards to read "The American Ambassador." The explanation of Secretary Hay is that there are other United States In Braxll, Colombia and Mexico. He might havs affirmed that It was the Kngllsh who did most to fasten the name American on the cltlsens of this country. While a few Englishmen having close relations with Canada apeak of this as "the States," which is Indefinite, every writer and orator . of influence in Great Britain uses the larger term of "America." The United States are not all of America, but their Influence la dominating, even In Canada. In point of territory, population, wealth and all that is important there Is little worth present consiturallon outside their boundaries. In time, no doubt. Canada will have many millions of prosperous people, but also in time Canada will be a part of the great republic. In respect of the nominally British colony the change of habit from "United States" to' "America" is prophetic. As there has been no studied change of name tor this nation, the use of "America" having been spontaneous because 'of the overwhelming and increasing Importance of the unparalleled republic. It would be absurd for our government to attempt to restrict even Its own officials to the less comprehensive title, it may be premature formally to abandon the official name of "the United States," but it would suggest mock-modesty to decline the eminence which the world has conceded to this ex panding country. SAID in FIN. "It was a grand wedding and the bride looked like a magnificent picture." "Did she meet the bridegroom?" "By gum, 1 forgot to sek which one he was! Cleveland Plain Dealer. Mrs. McCall So your dear old uncle has gone to heaven. Willie We don't know yet. His will won t be read till after the funeral. Philadelphia Catholic Standard. "Is the profession of weather prophecy a satisfactory one?" "Well," answered the expert "In a gen eral way It la. You see, as a rule the In- ' come is not so unreliable as the predic tions." Washington Star. The English tourist who had devoted one day to trying to keep up with the presiden tial party out west mopped perspiration from his brow. "Baw Jove!" he gasped, "your president calls this resting from the cares ot his of fice, does he!" -Chicago Tribune. Householder There's something wrong With this bill, It's top big. j . r ' Grocer s Clerk-That s whjTrle' Boss' Bent me to collect it Brooklyn Life. .- Customer I wonder if you keep type writer ribbons In this store. New Salesgirl (with some resentment) You'll And ribbons here good enough for anvbody, I guess. Six counters down. Philadelphia Press. "Why Is It," asked a curious, clttxen, "that in Stockholm a conversion by tele phone costs only a fraction over a penny, while In New York It costs a dime?" "I'm er well, you see." said the tele- Shone man, "the language there is very lfferent from ours." Brooklyn Eagle. t ,( "Fame Is guilty of many Injustices," re marked Colonel Stllwell. "We are con stantly talking about the electric light and the telephone, while the geniuses who dis covered the corkscrew and the lemon 1 iVashlngton fctar. THE PITCHER. Somerville Journal. The pitcher takes a telling pose. And holds the ball on high. Then turns It with his finger tips. His new In-curve to try. Then swiftly swings his strong right arm The vlctous deed is done! The umpire dodges skilfully And hoarsely shouts; 'Ba-all one!" The pitcher takes his pose again. Both feet firm on the ground. Again, he holds the ball on high. And slowly turns It round. Then once more he uncoils himself. The batsman to undo. The ball smacks In ths catcher's glove. The umpire shouts: "Ba-Sll two!" The pitcher fiercely grinds his heel. In deaperatlon grim. Once more he holds the ball on high, All eves are fixed on him. Once more he swiftly lets If drive, Then fiercely slaps his knee Because the umpire coldly cries. In foghorn tones: "Ba-all three. The pitchjer's face is firm and set, A wild gleam In bis eye Shows his determination, as , He holds the ball on hlfrh. He hurls It In the bat swings round, . And meets It with a thud! The ball soars o'er the left-field fenee'. The pitcher's name is Mud! J 1 )
