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THE OMAITA DAILY BEE: "WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1!)03. Tiie Omaha Daily Bee E. ROSK WATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNINO. TERMS OF PCRRCR1PTION. Dally tin (without 8unliiv, One Ycor..$4.n0 Dally Bf ami Bunday, tine Year Illustrated ltee. One Year 00 Sunday line. One Year 2" ftaturdav Bee, one Year I s" Twentieth Century Farmer, One Tear.. 1.00 DELIVERED HY CARRIER. Dally Hee (without Sunday), per copy ... Jc Iiallv n m.iiK,,ii M imLivi. ner week. ..IO Dally Hee (Including Kunday), per week.. 17c Punday Hee, per copy. fcc Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week. c Evening lire (Including Sunday), per week 1C Complaint of Irregularities In delivery Should be addressed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omaha The Bet? building. South Omaha City Hall Building, Twenty-fifth and M Streets. Council JHIiiitid pearl Street. Chicago 161 Cnlty Building. New York 232 Park Row Building. Washington 61 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Ilee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, ravablo to The Bee I-.ibllHhlng Company, miy 2-cent stamps accepted In payment of miill account, i'ersonal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.: George B. Tzuchuck, secretary of The Bee Publlsning company, being duly sworn, ays that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during tha montti or May, 1W3, was as ioiiows l ao,iM I RO.ttTS t au.wo 4 80.6UO t aw,7uo SS.BTW 1 80,U70 I ao,io 80,744 10 217,775 II 30,440 12 30,70 IS atMMO 14 :m,tm 15 UO.UoU 17 8S.4BO U 8 1,030 i ao.T!o 20 HO.SttO 21.. 30.H70 22 ,..ao,40 23 3O.A30 24 28,230 25 8030 26 30.70O J7 30.7BO 28 3W.BSO 28 80,60 20 8180 Jl 27,000 IS IHI.HIHI Total DM.IMW Less unsold and returned copies lo,a8 Net total sales 43,BJ Net average sales SO.437 UEORQE B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 21st day of May, A. D. 1903. M. B. HUNOATK, (Seal.) Notary f-ubllc. a. ' If any state can produce a corn crop In spite of adverse conditions, Nebraska can. The Panama canal treaty negotiations seem to be approaching the ultimatum stage. With all the men back to work the Union Pacific shops should now be the busiest place in town. Old Missouri river Is entitled to a chromo certificate of good conduct so far as Omaha Is concerned. Two accidents in the course of a few weeks In which two inoffensive prison era are shot by the same policeman is too much of a coincidence. rending developments, Grover Cleve land Is enjoying himself as an interested spectator at the commencement exer clses of Trinceton university. In its malignant tirade against The Bee the brass band charity organ has caught a tartar and so It has to cover its retreat by a shower of auditorium bricks. Germany is trying to attract some American gold by raising the rate of dis count of the' Imperial bank. If it will only raise the bid high enough it can have the coin. E. II. Harrlman will probably enjoy his European trip much better now knowing that the labor troubles with the railroads directly under his manage ment have all been amicably adjusted. Governor Taft's report on conditions in the Philippines does not quite gibe with that made by General Miles on his return from his tour of our eastern pos sessions. The two reports may have to be sent to a conference committee.' Reading between the lines, we take It that the unsympathetic course pursued by The Bee with regard to the audi torium gold brick scheme was not as offensive as Its refusal to obey the Im perious commands of the pompous San born. . . Abolition of the bridge arbitrary will do Omaha lots of good If our manufac turers and JoblM'ra will nvall themselves of It to the utmost ' It will be well to remember, however, that trade does not come in these days of competition with out going after It. To show that he It a man of his word. Governor Bulley of Kansas is going to take a wife as he promised before bis election. To show that he is a man of the people the governor Is going to marry a widow who has been earning her own livelihood. Some of our southern friends profess astonishment that Hubert E. Lee should be denied a place alougsldo of Wash ington.. But Lee never will occupy a place In history alongside of Washing ton no matter by what standard the comparison la made. Whether Judso Tuft fills the bill as a western man for vice presldeut depends entirely upon the geographical location of the observer whether he Is east or west of Ohio. Still, If he could be cred Ited up to the Philippines he might be referred to either as a far western or as a far eastern man to suit the occa slon. For seuselesa charter tinkering the late Douglas delegation to the legis lature eclipsed everything that had gone before, and that, U sayiug a great deal. The complication over the Board of Public Works employes Is the result of legislative malpractice, incited solely by political vlndlctlveuesa. In the Interval the people ot Omaha aa the innocent victims, have to suffer the consequences. DEMOCRATIC ANTl-REORfl A tl tZERS. The men who are promoting demo cratic reorganization are not to have the field wholly to themselves. Those who believe In the Chleauo and Kansas City platforms are beginning to bestir themselves and are likely ti be heard from In no uncertain way In the near future. A national conference of dem ocrats is announced to be held In Chi cago next month, at which It Is said that Mayor Harrison, Mr. Hryan and a number of others opposed to the reor ganization movement will be In at tendance and make addresses. Already Mayor Harrison has sounded the key note of the conference In the statement that "most of the talk about reorganiza tion comes from men who, however em inent, are not especially noted for their loyalty to the party of late years." He Is quoted as saying that the platform enunciated by the last national conven tion is the political creed of the pnrty and will continue so to be until another national convention shall change It, and that while It fs the privilege of any one to urge an alteration of the platform, when such an appeal shall be made "It will be determined upon Its merits and not upon the supposed Importance of the handful of gentlemen who are as suming to tell the party what to do." The eastern reorganizes, judging from the expressions of some of their news paper organs, seem to have a good deal of confidence In their ability to secure control of the next democratic national convention. Some of these organs talk as if they really believe that already the platforms of 1806 and 1900 are without substantial support and that the leader In those campaigns has now no adher ents and is virtually dead politically. The conference to be held In Chicago is likely to show that they are mistaken, that as a matter of fact the last demo cratic national platform Is still regarded with favor by a very large number of those who accepted It In 100C and that Mr. Bryan has by no means been wholly deserted. It Ib quite probable that the reorganizes will discover that the forces of Bryanlsm are yet somewhat formld able and pretty certain to have a good deal to say and wield no little Influence In the democratic national convention of 1904. At all events, the Chicago conference of democratic antl-reorganizers will be a political incident of Interest and sig nificance. It will doubtless - disclose what this element Intends to do by way of counteracting the eastern movement. which so far as appears Is at present mainly in the Interest of the nomination of Mr. Cleveland. Of course others are being talked of and their availability discussed, but the only nam that elicits any real interest or awakens any en thusiasra on the part of eastern demo crats generally is that of the ex-president. The reorganizes profess unques tioning faith that he could again' lead the democracy to victory and there are ftome strong Influences other than politi cal, there is reason to believeV at work for him. ' IMPORTANT POSTAL At FORM. The Judicial decision sustaining the ruling of the Postofflce department re garding the classification of second-class mall matter, excluding therefrom a vast amount of books and publications which had for yeas been carried at newspaper rates. Is of very considerable Importance, particularly in the effect upon postal revenues. The decision vindicates the action of former Postmaster Genera Smith, who made the ruling that has been sustained, and is really a great vie tory for a vital public reform and for a regenerated and self-sustaining ' postal service. For yeas heads of the depart ment had called attention to the abuses under the classification' of second-class matter and unsuccessful efforts were made In congress to provide a remedy, It remained for Mr. Smith to assume the authority of determining what should be second-class matter and the ' court has declared that the postmaster general has power to do this, that he is free to classify mall matter according to . his Judgment as to the true meaning of the law. It la estimated that this reform will increase the annual postal receipts sev eral million dollars. Of course it will not affect newspapers and legitimate periodicals. As remarked by an official of the department, this administration will in every sense execute the law rea sonably, fairly and equitably, and will protect publishers of legitimate new papers and periodicals In their lawful rights. AO CHAKQB IN BRITISH POLICY. From what transpired in the House of Commons yesterday it is perfectly safe to say that no change in the British fiscal policy is imminent. The govern ment's proposal to remove the grain tax will prevail and there will be nothing done, so far as Parliament Is concerned. to promote the policy urged by Mr. Chamberlain. Perhaps the element favorable to the plan of the colonial sec retary will prove to be stronger than haa been thought, but it is manifestly very far from being strong enough to effect anything at present and whether or not It will grow is a question. There Is no doubt that Chamberlain's attitude has made a considerable impression, but it Is a very difficult matter to Induce the English people to believe that any bene fit Is to be derived from a grain tax. It is a very practical question with them, as to which the sentiment regarding closer relations between the colonies and the mother country exerts but little in fluence. In a speech a few days ago the liberal leader vigorously denounced the Cham berlain proposal, pointing out the suf- ferlng that a protective system would be likely to inflict on the working classes and the illusory nature of the proposed bribe of old-age pensions. Sir Campbell Bannermau undoubtedly ' voiced the overwhelming sentiment of the people of the United Kingdom. Mr. Chamber lain U not & man to surrender at the. first attack and it is to be expected that e will continue to urge his policy, but there is no apparent chance of his ac complishing anything at this time. In deed it Is doubtful If what he proposes can ever be attained, since It will be hardly possible to convince the English people that a tax on grnln will not mean for them dearer bread. WHERE ARE TlloaE WATCH D0GS1 For a number of years past the Omaha Commercial club, and especially the members of its executive committee, have manifested Intense auxlety to place the city in control of the water works. Municipal ownership of the water works has been discussed before the club by political economists and politicians, and resolutions favoring the aequlsitlon of the 'water works plant by compulsory purchase have been passed and spread upon the Journals of the club. When the water works purchase bill was before the legislature last winter the Ileal Estate exchange fell In with the Commercial club and gave the bill unanimous endorsement without dis cussing Its merits or demerits. Since the enactment of the Howell-Gllbert bill the effervescent enthusiasm over the proposed purchase has died out and an inexplicable indifference Is exhibited by the executive committee of the Com mercial club and the Real Estate ex change concerning the danger that con fronts the city in the three appraises' arbitration. While The Bee cannot Justly be held responsible for the lack of interest mani fested on the part of any organization or the suggestive silence of its con temporaries. It does not propose to put nj body In or out of Omaha in position In the future to charge It with derelic tion of duty or betrayal of public In terests for private advantage. It will be remembered that the glaring defects In the compulsory purchase bill were pointed out by this paper before Its passage, but for some reason the watch dogs in the Board of Trade building did not bark a bark. There was ample time to amend the defects of the bill between Its passage and the adjourn ment of the legislature, but for some mysterious reason nobody in the Doug las delegation ventured to Introduce amendments that would safeguard the interests of the city. When the water board selected J. W. Alvord as the city's appraiser The Bee called attention to the fact that an extra hazardous risk was being assumed in the selection of an engineer compara tively unknown to negotiate on behalf of the city a deal that will Involve millions of dollars. But Mr. Alvord, al though not known to a single member of the council, was unanimously con firmed by that body without even nam ing the price for his services and given the privilege to name the third ap praiser Jointly with the appraiser named by the water company. This imprudent proceeding on the part of the water board and council did not evoke a soli tary murmur of dissent on the part of the Commercial club or the Real Estate exchange. And now we are approaching the cul mination of the extraordinary proceed ing. It is announced that Mc. Alvord, as the arbitrator for the city, and Mr, Benzenberg, the engineer selected by the Omaha Water company, are to con vene in Omaha within a few days to select the third man, with a view to proceeding with the appraisement as rapidly as possible. The question that naturally presents itseli is: What voice will Omaha have in this appraisement? Will Engineer Alvord make up his own list for the third man or will he pick a man from the list prepared by the water board or by the water works company? Will be in making the appraisement stand up for the city or will he stand In with his colleague and let the city whistle? Whether these questions have flitted across the minds of the members of the executive committee of the Commercial club or the Real Estate exchange we cannot surmise, but the suggestion is thrown out so that In the future those who always hold The Bee responsible for strikes, storms, floods or any other Ill-fortune that befalls Omaha may not truthfully lay the blame for a bad bar gain at its door. A police officer who discharges his re volver at an alleged beggar and shoots him In the back by accident is not a fit man for police duty. Policemen are not armed with revolvers for target practice with men as the target. A policeman has no more right to use a deadly weapon except in self-defense or in an attempt to arrest or capture a dangeroua criminal than any private citizen. A policeman who cannot con trol his temper sufficiently to keep his finger off the trigger Is not the right kind of a public protector. It Is to be hope the police commission will revise its judgment and set an example that will put a stop to promiscuous shooting by police officers who have no control over themselves. One of the questions that forces Itself upon municipal corporations by a recent decision in the courts Is whether a rail road right of way for trackage through streets and alleys in cities constitutes franchise. Conceding that the grant of a right of way to a traction company that operates street railways by horse power, electrical power or steam power constitutes a franchise, the natural In ference would be that the use of public thoroughfares within city limits for the transportation of freight and passen gers, whether local, state or interstate, would also constitute a valuable priv ilege subject to all the regulations and limitations of municipal authority. Omaha might be plastered over with paving plants, but that would not In sure keeping the streets in good con dition. It takes money to pay for pav ing maintenance and repairs and the fund available, for Uua purpose, will not meet legitimate demands for ordi nary wear and tear. Where the street surface Is completely worrt out, as on North Sixteenth street, the adjacent property ownes should be compelled to pay for a new pavilnent. Omaha has several thousand dollars Invested in a new market house, from which it is getting no returns whatever. If the building belonged to private parties it Is safe to say an effort would be made to have it completed and tenanted Instead of standing idle as a piece of dead property. King Victor Emmanuel evidently knows how to touch the right spot with President Roosevelt. His gift of hand somely bound volumes for the president's library could not have been more apt propria tel y selected unless, perhaps, he chose to present a new rifle or a pair of revolvers. A Doleful Prospect. Chicago Tribune. In short, what will Editor Bryan do when all the rest of the world has joined the con spiracy against Itself and adopted the gold standard T Chinese Thrift. Indianapolis News. No doubt the Chinese are conferring a great honor on us by letting ua house our legation In one of their sacred temples. Still It has Its drawbacks when It involves 25,000 worth of repairs. Pathos la the Silence. Washington Poet. The former Congressman who achieved fame by coining the query "Where am I at?" Is dead, and we cannot answer his question now any more aoourately than when he first asked It. Shaming; Off in Style. Denver News. Under a budding Mao bush, whose white petals dabbled In his heart's blood, young Roy C. Butler In a fit of despondency cut the thread of his life with a pistol bullet In City park yesterday afternoon. The Strennons Bra, Springfield Republican. With floods In th Mississippi basin, for est fires In the east and cyclones In the south, really nothing Is needed to complete the work of devastation but an earthquake la California and an automobile race through the middle west. The Less Bald the Better. Chicago News. Southern newspapers are respectfully re quested to make no mention of the lynching bee at Belleville, III. Comments upon such an affair could only have the effect of em barrassing northern people greatly In their work of pointing out and reproving similar sins of the south. The Aftermath et Was. Chicago Chronicle. Patriotic citizens who whooped vocifer ously for war with Spain are likely to scratch their heads at the Information that 57,616 "invalids" of that conflict have al ready made application for pensions along with 8,890 "widows and orphans." As more people are killed and wounded every Fourth of July than succumbed In the whole Span ish war, It may puzzle, the ordinary tax paying citizen to account for this extraor dinaryand expensive pension list. . Ho Elbow Room at Sea. . New York .Herald. There Is too little elbow, room on modern United States warships, especially In the general mess, and this Is one reason for the discontent which causes many recruits to desert. Desertions during the last month numbered more than 300. The general mess system has tesulted In. a very well cooked and plentiful ration of considerable variety, but the space for the mess table Is so small that the men have to sit very close together and all their food Is placed on the table be fore, mess call Is sounded. This detracts from the neatness which could be obtained by more roomy mess quarters. The ex tremely large batteries now being placed on shipboard necessitate larger complements on battleships and cruisers, whi'.e large amounts of auxiliary machinery take up a great deal of deck space. COLLAPSE OF TUB BUBBLES. Inflated Valaes Vanishing from Over loaded Combines. Baltimore American. The speculating element ' Is painfully realising a truth which has long been pat ent and which has been so frequently re iterated that It Is strange the public haa not profited by Its lessons. The man who buys a bag of wind and holds It with the hope of selling it to somebody else as a bag of gold runs the hazard of suffering dlsap polntment The prospect may be very promising at the moment the purchase Is made, but when the time comes for selUjig the wou'.d-be purchaser may Insist upon knowing what he Is buying before parting with his money. The moment buyers be come Inquisitive and seek Information about the bargains offered them, the chance for selling fictions will vanish. This paper has been warning the public against Wall street for more than a year, Time and time again have facts been ad duced to show that the fancy prices which the bull carnival created were due to Infla tion, pure and simple. The public has been wild for some time, and in the recent past was dally paying ludicrously high prices for bags containing very little gold, but a great volume of wind. Inflation was ram pant. Enthusiasm dethroned good sense and .proper Judgment. Peop'.e dashed Into the market eager to buy anything, their Idea being that some fools bigger than themselves would rush In behind them and buy at higher prices. In this way absurd- ,ty wa" plle1 on top of b8urd,tr unU the cold logic of finance and economics forced the publlo to think. Then folldwed a period of Investigation. Holders of securities be gan to examine what they had bought They opened their bags and weighed and measured the real value of what they had. To their chagrin and disgust they found themselves In possession of something far less In real value than the amount It had cost. Then developed the first signs of liquida tion. Wise men who perceived that the day ot revelation had come did not wait for any market s'.ump. They began to unload without delay. In the meantime, all kinds of fantastic nonsense was put In circulation to bolster the market up for further opera tions in fictions. But the desire to get out of the market as quickly aa the market would permit became more determined. The public grew more timid as the Inherent rottenness of the situation more and more disclosed Itself. Selling, therefore, gained momentum the longer it continued. The various bags of fiction during the past nine months have been bursting with such per sistent frequency that It has been like one long, continuous stock market explosion. During the past few days some of these dazzling aureoles of Inflation have encoun tered such violent forces of dissipation that Wal! street has been made to tremble to Its very Venter. The process Is natural. therefore, and will continue. It will con tlnue until the great vaporous circle of fic tion breaks and collapses and the whole cloud of wind and water folds back and settles upon the hard crust ef actual, solid value. A I SCOKYESTIOXAI PRESIDENT, "Open-Minded, Free-Heart ed. Willing to Tell All Me Knows. Boston Transcript. The word which perhaps most fitly char acterises the present chief of our nation, especially In reference to his public and political life, la "unconventional." It Is a harmless word. In that It suggests no mo tive; while It suggests wonderful strength of character when It Is remembered that he Is In the heart of traditional public and political conventionality, and not only holds his own, but Impresses himself upon the nation as a dominant force In Its life. Serenely unmindful of what "Is expected" of him, yet conscientious as to what he ought to do. Inflexible as to his purpose, Impulsively quick to act when his mind Is made up, he rushes on his course, and t. official and political people are stirred up as dry leaves are stirred up by the wind. Conventional people pause to watch the direction of his Independence, as If uncer tain themselves, and politicians espe cially the boss and ring politicians are afraid of him. Yet there is no merely im pulsive action, nothing Irresponsible. There Is wonderful method, but It Is his own method. A mind made up, his wits about him, strong purpose, characterize all he does. President Roosevelt is purely uncon ventional; but his la so strong a personal ity that four years more of him, after his present term of office. Is likely to result in a new order of things a new convention ality. Here Is Just the potnt, or at least the cheering feature, of the nation's confidence In him. Conventionality Is all right until, like the wineskins of old time. It Is per mitted to dry up stiff and hard so that it breaks when new wine is poured In. Then It is very dangerous, for It Is Inadequate to hold the expanding lift of the nation. Without going Into details, as to political corruption It is demonstrated here and there, the Inadequacy of present laws and social and political customs and methods, to meet the new exigencies of our time, It Is enough to say, without playing the alarmist, that -our present wineskins are for the moat part very dry, hard and dangerous. This la recognised by all close observers, and needs no argument. Nor la there cause for alarm, for the sturdy con science and sense of the American people can be depended upon to create new ves sels to hold our wine of life. But Is It not a most cheering thing that the leader of the new movement, the crystalllser Into method of the people's movement, Is none other than the president? This, at least. Is true of him, so far aa his publlo and political life is concerned when the formation Is complete, social and other life will take on the new shape. It is certainly a good thing to feel that a man of good conscience, honest convic tions, broad understanding and public spirit Is In the lead. It Is polltio to let him lead. It Is characteristic of all governments but not so much as In former times, exoept In respect to governments of the ancient sort that their political machinery is kept In closed and locked rooms, rigidly secure from publio gase. It has often been ac counted treason to reveal to the people the secrets of their own government. This ought not to be so In a republic, beyond those matter "of policy where secrecy for the time Is essential. Yet we have been cursed with the custom of extending the old rule to the machinery of party politics and to government as administered by par ties, and latterly to Industrial and busi ness enterprises especially In their relation to parties and legislation. . Here, at least. Is one respect In which our president refuses to be conventional. Dpen-mlnded, free-hearted, he Is willing to tell all he knows, to reveal all his own political secrets, to take the people whose government this" Is. into his counsel. It Is a new fashion, but after all will not It touch the popular heart to which It ap peals T PKRSOHAL NOTES. Christopher Btlmis, who has Just died in Newark, N. J., helped to build the yacht America, the first cup boat. Martin Pornes, who has suoceeded tern porarily to the desk In the Postofflce de partment at Washington vacated by Ma- chen. Is a Norwegian by birth. Evidently the French Academy has not heard that a Chicago real estate man wrote "Cyrano de Bergerae." Edmond Rostand has Just been elected to membership among the Immortals. Jersey farmers whose crops have been ruined by the drouth may muse upon the benefits of compensation. The state ento mologist announces that the dry weather will cut down the mosquito output to 60 per cent. . John L Orlfllths Is at work on the life of the late President Harrison. All the private papers of the president, including some unfinished manuscripts, have been turned over to him. Mr. Orlfllths was closely associated with Mr. Harrison for many years. He Is at present at Indian spoils. Hall Calne recently completed his first half century. While he la chiefly known as a novelist and dramatist, he Is a man of many energies. He spent five years as an apprentice In an architect's office In Liver pool, bat the technical knowledge he ao quired he used mainly for themes In his early writings. President Roosevelt swapped one of the medals with which wayside enthusiasm had overloaded him with a little girl, for a live badger, while In Wisconsin. Anyone hav ing Interesting live stock that he Is anxious o exchange for souvenirs can hear of some thing to his advantage by applying at the White House. Frank James and Cole Younger, the ex- bandits, who have been touring Kansas and Missouri with a wild west show of which they were supposed to be the proprietors, were arrested the other day for running a gambling game In connection with the show. At the hearing It developed that they were salaried employes of the real owner of the enterprise bearing their names. The New York World asked young Gov ernor Beckham of Kentucky to communl cate to It (and the public) his plans for potting a stop to the feuds. He telegraphed back: "When you succeed In evolving a real good plan for successfully stamping out sin and crime In New York please let me know what'lt la and I will try It In Kentucky if necessary." Russell Bsge Is In his 89th year and I generally referred to as a "veteran flnan cler," but Edward B. Wesley, a trader In the New York stock market, la his senior by four years In the matter of age and has been nearly a quarter of a century longer on 'change.' Mr. Wesley began speculatln when only 9 years of age, his first venture being in pins, when he made a profit of about a dollar. From that day to this h has made his living aa a speculator. A Change for the Better. Indianapolis Journal. The administration la showing a most commendable disposition to push the In vestlgatlon of the scandal In the Postofflce department to the furthest limit, to And every rotten spot and provide a drastic cure. It forms a striking Illustration of the progress of political methods In the United States. Two or three decades ago, no mat ter which party had been In power, the chief concern of the administration would have been not to get at the bottom of the matter and clean It up, but to smother It as quickly as possible. HOI Kn AROIT NEW YOIIK. Ripples on the Cnrrent of Life loathe Metropolis. "The course of the Pennsylvania Rail road Stuck." says a New York dispatch to the Chicago Tribune, "since the formation of the underwriting syndicate Is a puzzle to Wall street. The stock has steadily declined since the syndicate was formed and on last Friday touched 1S31,, the lowest point since 199. The accusation Is made openly In the financial district that several of the heaviest subscribers to the syndicate have been the principal sellers of the stork, and the presumption seems to be that the object of the attack la to depress the stock In order to make It unattractive to Pennsylvania stockholders, who have the right to subscribe at 120. "If the real object ot the syndicate Is to get possession of a great share of the new 5.000.000 Issue, with a view to securing a icleus for n control fight, It la likely to be accompanied by pyrotechnics such aa Wall street has not seen since' the Northern aclflc' panic two years ago. In which several members of the syndicate played prominent part. 'The change In the control of the Pennsylvania rnllrond. Involving as It ould similar changes In the Baltimore Ohio, the Reading, Jersey Central, Nor folk St Western, Chesapeake Ohio nd half a dozen smaller properties, would be accompanied by a financial upheave) that ' would make some startling changes on the railroad aa well as on the banking map. ' The great Pennsylvania system was forced to capitulate to John D. Rockefeller In 1877, when It abandoned Its Support of the Independent refineries and accepted the terms of the Standard Oil company un conditionally. At that time Andrew Cassett bore the flag of true. Wall street Is wandering whether history la go ing to repeat Itself." Mr. Dooley la a polios captain in Brooklyn. At the Latonla race track the other dar a horse named for "Philosopher Dooley" was running and In a Brooklyn pool room the progress of the race was being called off. Captain Doiiey was at the door of the room, which he had long suspected. 'They're off!" he heard a voice shout In the room. "Mr. Dooley in tne leaai By neck at the quarter!'; "Still leading at the half!" shouted the same voice. "Mr. Dooley second!" came the announcement at the conclusion of the race. "No, Mr. Dooley is first," came the volos of Captain Dooley, as with his detectives he broke Into the room and arrested proprietor and patrora. George D. Wldener, the Philadelphia financier, returned on the steamer St Paul and at the pier made the usual declaratlan about his effects. The customs officer drew paper from his pocket and said: "Hero is a cablegram from London saying that you had a nu-nber of diamonds." Oh, yes. that reminds me," said Mr. Wldener. Sure enough, I did have some. I remem ber now having forgotten them and Jeft them In my room on the bureau at the Hotel Carlton." Then Mr. Wldener sn-, nounced he would cable and have the Jewels cared for at once. The customs offlsar thereupon passed the baggage. , u Certain women are soon In New York's shopping district this month who are never seen there at any other season or tne year. Most of them are -old and shabby, and they live In little homes that are the last remnant of "squatter sovereignty." But catnip grows In the rocky gardens that surround their homes and every woman who owns a pet tabby liken to treat It to sprig of fresh catnip.' ' It la pussy's tonic. his spring ' medicine. - Few women out hopping would know -where to go and buy fresh catnip, but It la. a very easy thing to purchase 6 or 10 cents worth from a woman with a basket who stands outside the blc stores, where the cat-loving women almost fall over her. Many of the shoppers buy more than 10 cents worth and give au the cats In their neighborhood (respectaoie cats with homes) a treat Cat owners ex change little courtesies in this way and the women who have catnip to sell make enough money for a new carpet or perhaps a Sunday at the seashore. Russell Sage Is going to move from the modest little house In Fifth avenue. New York, where he has lived for forty-twe years. He can no longer "stand for" his neighbors. First some one put a candy store next door to him. Then another store was established on the other side. At the rear of the candy store la an Immense fan designed to cool the loe cream parlor. This fan 18 right next to three of the win dows of his dining room. - The noise It makes Is deafening. On the Forty-second street side there Is a smoking parlor and as Mrs. Sage detests the smell of tobacco she Is compelled to keep her windows closed. So they are going to move to the now deserted mansion of the late Charles Broadway Rouss. On one side lives Henry Clews, on the other D. Ogden Mills. The largest pier In New York harbor haa Just been completed at the foot of Forty- fourth street. South Brooklyn, It Is the property of the Bush Terminal company. which has Immense storage warehouses there and which Is developing monster ship and railroad terminal facilities In that sec tion of Greater New York. The new pier, which Is one of five that are In course or construction, measures from the bulkhead to the extreme end 1.S14 feet or within twenty-four feet of a quar ter of a mile. It Is ISO feet wide, thus af fording a floor space of 207,100 square feet for the handling of freight. The proprietor of an expensively deco rated drinking place located on one of the lively business streets of , Harlem dis charged all of his bartenders a couple of months ago and employed women to take th.ir nlacea. His Idea was to Introduce the English barmaid system In New York, and he thought he saw a chance to make a sensation. In addition to a lot or money, out of his scheme. The barmaids he em ployed were all pretty women, and he had them Instructed In the an or mixing annas before discharging his male bartenders. With the neatly dressed and apronea Bar maids Installed, the proprietor of the cafe sat back and waited for the rush. The rush didn't ensue. The regular customers of the establishment would poke their heads In at the swinging doors, gase mvstlfledly at the barmaids and then bolted for It. Passing strangers, darting into ine ni. for refreshments, did exactly the same thing. The proprietor kept his bar maids for about a week, during which Waltham Watches They last. "The Perfected AmeHctn Watch' n Clasbited booh of interesting information about watches, xiitl be sent fret upon request. American Waltham Watch Company, Waltham, Mass, time scarcely any business whatever wsa done, and the greater rsrt of 'he steady custom "had gone elsewhere, and then he had to discharge the barmaids and re-em-plor his male bartenders. The barmaid scheme had been what Is known aa a dead frost It was not the first time the bar maid experiment had been tried In New York, but the failure was even more com plete than on the other occasions when attempts have been made to attract cus tom to New York drinking places through the employment of attractive barmaids. The simple fact seems to be that the American view of and reverence for women Is of such a character that even the steady drinkers object to taking their drams from feminine hands. "When the Impartial historian writes the grewsome story of Kishlneff." says the New York Tribune, "he should not forget the little Incident which took place In tho crowded East Side district of this city the other day. A poor man was hoarding his canty earnings In order to be able to send for his wife and children, who. arc In Kishlneff. He denied himself the necessi ties of life and died of starvation, with the necessary Immigration fund nearly complete. It was one of the many Kishl neff shadows which have fallen In the metropolis." KX-SPEAKER REED'S FOBTIXE. Is of Bis Fortnne a tarnrlse to Others Than His Heirs. Boston Transcript When Thomas B. Reed died It wns cur rently said that he died a poor man, as poor aa when he entered publlo life. One of the Washington papers, which ought to have known better, became quite pathetic on the subject and was Inclined to Indulge In a lecture on the Ingratitude of republics. There were those who thought that Mr. Reed would leave his family in comfortable circumstances, but even they were not prepared to estimate his estate at the value of the recently filed appraisal, J431.000 net. Mr. Reed never in his Washington life declared himself a rich man, nor a poor man. He was reticent about his private affairs, lived quietly and had simple ways In a city whose cardinal point of social belief Is that If you have money you spend It and if you are not profuse It Is because you cannot afford to be, the Impression that Mr. Reed was a man of very limited means easily obtained. Yet even Washlng tontans ought to have reflected that the ag gregate of hip pfflclal salary, his earnings as a writer and lawyer, might easily reach 120,000 a year, of which he spent compara tively little. In Washington that Is not the way, however, and In the first days fol lowing his death It was taken for granted that he had died poor. The appraisal of his estate, however. Indicates that he was a wealthier man than many public men of even greater celebrity. There Is a popular Impression ' that all public men of the first class are Immensely wealthy, whereas there are some of whom the country hears a great deal who ' are sim ply In comfortable circumstances. This Is to a greater ertent true of south ern public men than of those of any other section. Professional earnings are smaller In the south than In the north or west. We have heard on good authority that a distinguished southerner who retired from the senate a few years ago stated that his Income aa a lawyer, up to his entering that body, had never exceeded the amount of hia senatorial salary In any one year. Nor are all the northern or western men in congress rich. We could mention one New Englander who went hack to private life under the necessity of working hard In "d 8 t"al estate being only about (25,000, This gentleman waa glad to ao oept a position with a moderate salary to assure himself against want, and that waa procured him by the exertions of constitu ent who know that he was poorer for his long serrloe in congress. THOUGHTS THAT TICKXB. The Doctor You have a bad cold -J1fVj' rou some pills forTt ' Mr' . Jlggs Oh. never mind. Sr,.tn. v' have It for nothingHarvard fcaaoon. 'And this" gnrntsilmawt . tte old world, emerging from hi.7 ateroom 2d a,.'l", "nilly at the shore im haa of hire, "Is free America! Vu0, ."al(l th bored looking passenger ,J?..th "teamer chair. "That U Sew v? Jlty. ' Chicago Tribune. He Now. thflre's a wnmaM t - l & tlste.' " . ene i oidn t know you knew her. BrooToynllfe! b" hu"and I know.- Superintendent tnt warn mmritm w. - sS-eet?nW bOUt lay"1' P'P in the Applicant (for place as foreman) I know they hadnt oughter be laid until the street has Just been repaved. He got the place. Judge. You don t mean to say, doctor, that you can tell people's ages by their teeth, the same aa If they were horses, do von?'' Which explains why this particular patient never went again to that particular dentist Chicago Tribune,, Kitty I met Mr. Swlnson Just now, and to1, m 1 WBS looking awfully pretty. What do you think of that? Edith Oh, I've always said Mr. Swlnson was a man of tact Boston Transcript "Say. doctor what's that last $3 Item In your bill forr' "Let me see. Oh, yes; I gave you a thor ough examination on that day. Don't you rememberT" "Sure I remember. But do you suppose I sm going to pay you for that when you took up an hour of my time and then couldn't find unvthlng the matter with me after all?" Buffalo Express. ADVICE VOn HOT WEATHER, Indianapolis News. When the mercury Is doing just a little more each day Toward the breaking of Its record while the summer's holding sway, Under certain circumstances it . Is unwise to get gay. And before you do so you had best think twice, msn, As the days are getting hotter you will need a good supply Of a thing that Just a little takes a lot of cash to buy. As It's put upon the market by an Inde pendent guy If you want It you must take It at his price, man. When at times you hear his raucous cry come from the alley gate It will send a feeling through you that's unpleasantly Irate, But before you set aggressive and attempt to buck at fate . 'Twould be wise to ponder over this sd vlce. man. For although what's called a hundred pounds may seem a little light. It were wiser not to say so than be bring ing on a fight. - Aa a Jolly and cigar will make you solid and all right, And you'll get more for your money from the Iceman. 4