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TNK OMAHA DAIIA TIEE: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1903. Tiie Omaha Daily Bee. E. ROSE WATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED KVERT MORNING. . TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Hee (without Sunday). One Yeor. M.OO Wily Up and Sunday, One Year S.oo llluetrateil Hee. One Year Sunday Hoe. One Year J- Saturday Dee, One Year Twentieth Century Farmer, One Year.. 1.00 DELIVERED BY CARRIER Dally Bee (without 8undr, per copy.... Ic Dally Hee (without Sunday), per week.. .12c Dally Bee (Including Sunday), per week..lic Sunday Hee. per ropy J0 Evening Hee (without Sunday), per week. 6c Evening Bee (Including Sunday), per week I Complaint of Irregularities In delivery should be addressed to City Circulation De partment. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building:. South Omaha City Hall Building. Twen-ly-flfth and M Streeta. Council Bluffs 10 Pcarl Street. . Chltajo 1610 Unity Building. New York 2.12.8 Park Row Building. Washington SOI Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Comnunlratlona relating to news and edi torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, expreaa or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps accepted In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THE BEli PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.: George B. Tisehuek, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, ays that the actual number of full and complete coplea of The Daily. Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during th montn or May. uwa, was as ionow; I ao.noo i :to.75 t SU.SMtO 4 30,51)0 I UO.T3U 35.0 TO T ao.o7o I 80.M10 1 80.740 10 2T.T75 II 3O.440 12 30.370 it ao.oao 14 30.7HO IS 30.USV 17 2H.4S0 18 81.030 1 80,7S0 20 80.MM) 21 8O.870 22 80.040 S3 80,830 24 38,330 25 30,830 24 80,790 27 80,750 28 30,080 29 30,(1110 80 81.8BO 81 2 7, IKK) it aotoo - Total osa.ooo Less unsold and returned copies 10,3 W Net total sales D43,Ra Net average sales SO.437 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 31st day of May, A. D. 1903. M. B. HUNGATE. (Seal.) Notary Public. Several eminent Mlssourlans must have been In hiding from the supreme court of that state wheu it wag hunting for signs of a tobacco trust. Having no other government to recog nlze, nothing is left for the powers to do but to recognize King Peter as soon as he is duly installed In the royal office. Lincoln has compromised with its tax shirking franchised corporations on their tax assessments. Evidently a lot of Lincoln people who are in the same boat prefer to keep it dark. The new Chinese minister has been formally received by the president It will take some time yet, however, to get his publicity bureau in as good working order as that which was maintained by his predecessor, Minister Wu. More people appear to have been drowned by the cloudburst in Oregon than lost their lives in all the floods in Kansas, Iowa and Missouri. It Is not the amount of water so much as the way it Is precipitated that determines the damage. Jim Hill's son declares that there is no need of dissolving the Northern SecKrtties company, even if the cases now pending in the courts all go against It In that event there will be no need either of maintaining the Northern Securities company. When Nebraska was afflicted by drouth It showed a disposition to help Itself by appropriating a liberal relief fund out of the state treasury, even though' it had to stretch the constitution to do it. Kansas can hardly afford not to do as much for its flood victims. Commissioner McDonald is to be com mended for striking a blow at super nunieraries, but it Is to be hoped the work of purging the county pay roll will not be confined to one or two pi biters who have done work that should be performed by principals Instead of substitutes. 'The six-period system at the high school is not half so hard on the teach ers as Is the ridiculous unit system, Abolish the unit system farce and the teachers will have no difficulty in stand ing up under six periods of teaching, which really gives them only five hours of classroom work dally. In his address to the Saengerfest at Baltimore President Roosevelt expressed the wish that there might be societies and associations everywhere in this country for the cultivation of mtiHic, both vocal and Instrumental. The presl dent evidently thinks that music is r.;i good thing of which we cannot hat too much. Chicago Methodist preacher suggest that all the persecuted Jew k of the world be reinstated in pos"tiion of Palestine as the solution of thv present problem. The Methodists are rJi(ly to take up this plan Just at a tlnwi when the Zionists, previously promoting It, are ready to abandon the project. There Is about as much prospect for re establishing the Jews in Palestine as there is for transplanting the Methodists to the same place. The striking bricklayers, or rather what there are left of the striking brick layers, in Omaha have returned, to work. Had the contending parties got ten' together on terms of give and take at the beginning of the trouble the ex odus of bricklayers from Omaha would not have occurred and a full comple ment of workmen would 'now 'be on deck to flnlah up the work in progress. The same Is true with reference to sev eral branches of skilled' mechanics, so that the building operations will have to limp along short handed all around. . - ' - - - - rre BtACTtoy rrom iflathm. There hag been an extraordinary shrinkage In the value of all classes of stocks and the end of the decline seems not yet to have been reached.' In its latest issue the Financial Chronicle pre sents figures showing the extent of the downward movement and they are in teresting and instructive. It is needless to say that before the beginning of this movement there had been an unpre cedented inflation of stock values. Al most without Interruption for several years there was a boom in which securi ties of every kind shared. The steadily Increasing prosperity of the country and the rapid accumulation of capital gave n Incentive to Investment and specula tion in stocks beyond any previous ex perience. The more sagacious and experienced nanclers pointed out that this sort of thing could not go on indefinitely and the reaction that has taken place Justifies their warning. The country is still prosperous. The railroaas are still doing a good business. Bnt there has been a change In conditions which Is less favorable to large dividends. The ex penses of the railroads have been ma terially Increased within the past year, until It is said that these have eaten up practically the whole of the improve ment in gross receipts. The figures given by the Chronicle show that the stocks of dividend-paying roads have suffered quite as much as the non- dlvldcnd-paylng and that the general shrinkage has been the most marked in many years, if not indeed un paralleled, which is certainly the case s to some of the stocks. In their comments on the situation some of the financial papers express the opinion that the reaction has about run its course. One of them remarks that there can hardly be a question that the market has reached a point where. In the case of the great mass of securities. intrinsic value bears a close relation to the dally quotations. It says that no far as influences are to be found in the general condition of business, the aver age of railroad earnings or the prospects of the chief Crops, there are unusually few disturbing elements to be reckoned with in the immediate future. "All things considered," observes that paper. 'it would appear as if an important part of the penalty for the period of inflation had been already paid and that so far at least as the commercial and financial future of the country is con cerned, there was no danger to appre hend a serious shrinkage of the indis pensable asset of confidence." That there will be some recovery in stock values Is of course probable, but it is pretty safe to assume that there will not soon again be such an inflation in these values as preceded the downward movement. Fortunately that movement has been of a character sufficiently gradual to avoid the danger of panic while arresting the process of increas ing the mass of securities, many millions of which have been found unsalable. That the financial situation has been made safer through this is not to be doubted. A CHtCK TO PUBLICITY. The decision of Judge La combe of the United States circuit court in New York, favorable to the contention of the an thracite coal-carrying railroads thnt con tracts between them and certain coal operators are privileged documents and that as such the Interstate Commerce commission has no power to compel their production as evidence, is some thing of a check to publicity, so far at least as the authority of the commission is concerned. The view taken by the court was that if the defendants were being prosecuted under the Sherman anti-trust law. for having entered into a combination, agreement or contract In restraint of trade, the contracts in ques tion would be relevant testimony, but it was held that the Investigation by the commission was not such a. prose cution nor the commission the forum before which such a prosecution could be conducted. This is doubtless correct since the In terstate Commerce commission has Jur isdiction to inquire only into questions of transportation, but it suggests very clearly that there Is a Way to obtain information as to contracts between the coal-carrying roads and coal operators and tills suggestion should receive at tention at wasnington. Tnere is no doubt as to the existence of contracts and It Is very probable that they are in violation of the anti-trust act. It has been reported that the Department of Justice was preparing to institute pro ceedings under this law against the an thracite coal roads and there certainly seems to be ample ground for doing so. It is evident that the commission can do little to meal the secret workings f the coal combination, but these may tw fully disclosed through a prosecu tion under the anti-trust law and there should be no unnecessary delay in adopting this course. v:j?!x:t' i A CVNStnrATtVK PBMVCJAT. Senator Clay of Georgia belongs to the conservative element of the democratic party and he thinr.s the platform next year should avoid any - radical Issues, but It is not easy to see how this is to b rt'v.ie if his suggestion that all ele ments in the party must be considered shall; be followed, la order to have such a platform as would be satisfac tory to democrats like Mr. Clay It will be necessary to' Ignore the radicals In the party, who there Is reason to think at present, constitute a majority. This element may .possibly be found willing a year hence to make some, concession to the conservatives, bnt tbjpy will de mand recognition of their' Tie ws and it will be fatal to the party to refuse it. It Is perfectly safe to say It will not h refused, for the radical element Is com posed of the really earnest sincere and aggressive men of the party, and they will have a representation and an in fluence in the next democratic national contention that will compel considers-1 Uon Conservative democrats like the Geor gia senator underestimate the strength and the determination of the radical element of the party, particularly in the middle and western states. They are misled by the representations of the eastern organs of reorganization, which do not take the trouble to in vestigate sentiment much beyond their neighborhood. The leaders of democracy In the middle and' western states are generally not in sympathy with the conservatism which Mr. Clay would counsel. They are giving no encourage ment to the reorganization movement. Some of them may change position next year, but the probability is that they will be found then advocating the prin ciples they now stand for and which they supported in the last two presi dential campaigns. AX CXSATISFACTUnr KXmniT. The financial exhibit of the Board of Education will be a disappointment to the rank and file of Omaha taxpayers, who have entertained the hope that the management of our schools would be conducted more strictly on business principles. The rule of every well con ducted business concern is to cut Its coat according to its cloth. In other words, to regulate its outgo according to Its Income. That old and approved rule, it would seem, has been discarded by the school board. With a most lavish Income at its dis posal, the board continues to fall behind In its balances, increasing the deficit, which on June 1, 1903, aggregated $123, 684.79. A detailed comparison of this year's balance sheet with that of the preceding year shows an aggregate pay roil for 1003 of $283,840.74, as against $280,029.19, or an apparent reduction of $2,182.45. The cut on the pay roll amounts to $4,411.80 in teachers' sal aries, while the pay of janitors was in creased by $1,986 and the pay of sal aried officers Increased by $483.3.". The reduction is apparent only because three weeks salary will be paid the teachers this June as compared with only two weeks salary last June. The trivial saving in the pay roll of 1903 is offset by a very moterlnl in crease in other directions, notably In the interest and exchange account, which for the year 1903 aggregated $30,671.00. as against $20,780.40 for the preceding year. That increase evidently repre sents the increased Interest on outstand ing warrants, which on June 1, 1903, aggregated $234,284.21, and have since been materially Increased. In view of the fact that the school board has the taxing power in its own hands, which it has exercised in the tax levy to meet the estimates based on the disbursements of the preceding year, the deficit of $123,000 seems almost inex pllcable. The west half of the Union Pacific bridge has been returned for county as sessment at $25,000, which multiplied by six, the ratio fixed in Douglas county for the assessment of all classes of property, represents an estimated actual value of $150,000. The east half of the Union Pacific bridge, which is worth no more than the west half, is assessed in Tottawattamie county, Iown, for $100, 000, which multiplied by four, the ratio of actual to assessed value in Iowa, is equal to $400,000. Both of these assess ments are out of all proportion to the true value of the bridge, which with approached could not be replaced for less than $1,000,000, but why the valua tion of the west half of that structure, ly ing within the state of Nebraska, should be considered worth a quarter of a mil lion less than the east half has not yet been made clear by the railroad bureau. As a matter of fact, the west half of the Union Taclflc bridge was assessed by the Nebraska State Board of Equal ization for $1,633. . Some mysterious reason, probably the apprehension of a test case in the federal courts, recon ciled the railroad company to a county assessment for $25,000, but when It came to the city assessment which on the basis of $25,000 would have been equal to $150,000, the railroad lawyers persistently demurred and insisted that the bridge should be taxed for munici pal put poses 'only at mileage rates fixed by the state board. Omaha Is not the only city In America that has perpetually to wrestle with Jhe franchlsed corporations to protect Its rights to self-government and enforce equitable taxation. In this respect Den ver is very much worse ofT than Omaha. After years of agitation Denver secured a constitutional amendment granting the right to make Its own charters with out interference from legislatures or governors. The amendment contem plated as a preliminary to home rule the election of twenty-one taxpaying citizens to frame the charter to be sub mitted for ratification to the voters next winter The election of members of the charter committee took place two weeks ago. but the corporations sought to pre vent the canvass and declaration of the result which was In favor of the civic ticket against the tickets set up by the corporations with partisan conventions packed in their interest. The Colorado court of appeals has finally ordered the canvassing board to proceed with its work and the count of the votes cast at the election on June 3 Is now in prog ress. The effect of this decision Is sum marized by the Denver News In the fol lowing paragraph: Since the corporation-ridden council can canvass no returns and defy the people, tbs pieparatton of a charter will proceed with vigor, and soon under the benign privi leges of the home rule amendment the people of Denver will come into their own. The state labor commissioner of Iowa has given out some figures purporting to show the source of Immigration into that state during the past year as com pared with preceding years for five years, based on data collected by the national immigration bureau in the answers by incoming immigrants as to their points of destination. Under such circumstances the statistics must be In large part unreliable, because the first destination of an Immigrant Is not al ways bis ultimate destination. Thou sands upon thousands of the newcomers stop a short while In the east before making their way out west It will hardly be safe to draw conclusions from these immigration tables. Now that the funds held by the county treasurer have been deposited at Interest for the benefit of the taxpayers, It may not be out of place to suggest that the funds held In trust by the county judge and deposited in banks and drawing in terest while on deposit should also be reported te the county board and the profits from the deposit should either go to the taxpayers or the estates that are being settled in the county court The farming out of public funds by salaried public officers Is a pernicious practice that should not be tolerated under any pretext Land Commissioner Follmer has done something no other state officer has done in turning back into the treasury $2,000 out of $3,000 appropriated by the 1901 legislature to cover the expenses of the State Board of Educational Lands and Funds. Mr.'Follmer la entitled to a big credit mark for introducing such busi ness methods in the transaction of that part of the state business which de volves upon him. The Sitka Indians are said to be tak ing advantage of the brisk demand for sealskins by raising the price of their catch more than double. Time was when the Indians would trade their most valuable furs for a yard of red calico and a half dozen, small mirrors. And yet some people Insist that the Indians are showing no evidence of benefiting by contact with civilization. According to the report of the school board meeting In the popocratlc organ "Mr. Mcintosh secured the scalps of the janitors at the Webster and Leaven worth schools." This is the way civil sen-ice Is enforced for the Janitors of the public schools in Omaha at the hands of the "reform" element In the school management. Pass It I p. ICnclnnatl Enquirer. 'The cosmic lessons of nature should be the decalogue of national living and doing." This from Senator Beveridge of Indiana. What does a man who can "sling English" like that want with a little thing like the vice presidency?" No Kneinles to Forgive. Chicago Chronicle. Berrlan methods of dealing with political opponents recall the anecdote of the his toric character whoon his deathbed, was exhorted by - his confessor to forgive his enemies. "I have none," was the com fortable reply; "they are all dead." Vindication ef Nerve. ' J ' Brooklyn., Eagle. A man' who can, come from California to be operated upon for appendicitis In New Tork and who appoints the hour for operation and the date for his departure on a pleasure trip to Europe, tn one order, must either have a strong constitution or considerable courage. E. H. Harrlman did exactly that, and the fact may Indicate or vindicate his nerve In railroad under takings. Heated Remark of the Barons. Philadelphia Record. Mr. Olyphant's statement that it la the "deviltry" of the miners that makes coal expensive shows a disposition to enter Into competition with Mr. Parry of the National Association of Manufacturers. In the em ployment of reckless language. It was shown last year that the increase In the price of coal was greater than the increase In the wages of the men, and it has not yet been shown that there Is a wage In crease sufficient to Justify the announced addition of 50 cents to the price of coal. -Weak Spots In Brave Men. Kansas City Journal. It is related of a Missouri engineer at Atchison that he does not hesitate to drive his machine at full speed through the blackest storm at night with washouts all around him, but that he Is afraid to go home alone tn the dark. If someone Is nbt at the roundhouse to go with him he sits there till daylight. It Is the old story of every man having his own peculiar fear. There la In Tnpeka a doctor who will cut a man to pieces and smile the while. lie Is an old soldier and often faced the can non's mouth. But he will betray the most abject terror If one of the harmleas little elm tree worms happen to drop on his person. ' Working- the Panama Graft. Philadelphia Ledger. A curious situation Is reported from the Isthmus of Panama. The states of Panama and Cauea are said to be opposed to the ratification of the treaty with the United States, but If the treaty be not ratified they threaten to secede. The explanation of this apparent contradiction is that since the treaty commits the United States to main tain the sovereignty of Colombia over the Isthmus, Its ratification would make the secession of the Isthmian states Impossible. They are not prepared to secede now, but they wish to retain the light of secession, of which the treaty would deprive them. It Is not certain how the affair will come out, but the United States Is having a great deal of trouble In giving these quar relsome people the financial opportunity of their llvos. A NATIONAL NECESSITY. Storage Reservoirs Pr five of Flood. Pittsburg Dispatch. The government offlclala in charge of the reclamation policy authorised by the recent Irrigation law hope to Include within the scope of their work plans which will pre vent the recurrence of the disastrous floods tn the Mississippi valleys. Storage reser voirs, not only at the heads of streams, but at all points where rain drainage can be Im pounded, will permit the diffusion of the surplus water for the Irrigation of millions of acres of land In Wyoming. Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotaa. The irrigation project will thus be doubly ad vantageous. In reclaiming the arid lands and In preventing the destruction of life and property. If this policy is supple mented with the improvement of the navi gable rivers so as to afford a deep chan nel instead of relying upon the levee sys tem, which has proved so unsatisfactory and unsafe, the floods of 1903 may be re membered as marking the first step in a great national undertaking which will bene fit not only those populous valleys, but the whole west, and, in fact, the entire country. ROt ND ABOt'T NEW TORK. Ripples Ike Cnrrent ( t.lfe In the Metropolis. A mysterious stranger, well dressed snd correct In Sartorial get-up, has been play ing "angel" to the human waifs of New Tork. Every night between 11 and midnight he appears In Bryant park and distributes silver dollars among the tramps who crowd the benches there. Once or twice he gave away over 100 of these coins. "It will do them more good than It Is doing me," he said to a policeman whom he asked to ac company him. The tramps have been mul tiplying so fast that the stranger Is ex pected to stop his lavish distribution as suddenly as It was begun. Russell Sage boarded a Sixth avenue ele vated train at Rector street one day last week. He carried under one arm a sample brick wrapped In a newspaper. It was one that the builder of the Emma Wlllard sem inary had taken to the financier's office. Repairs to Sage hall are to be made, and Mr, Sage wanted to see the brick that Is to be used. It was worth perhaps 2 cents. At Twenty-eighth street a sporty looking youth, who evidently knew the great man, reached down, seised the brick, dashed to the door and was down the stairs and away before Mr. Sage, much annoyed, could get to the door and breathlessly explain to the guard what had happened. "I felt sorry for him," said he latter, when he told of the experience. "lie looked real sad at losing that brick, but I'd have given a dollar to see the face of the other fellow when he cut the string." In New Tork the schedule gevernlng the working hours of the waiters Is not par ticularly trying. There are usually three shifts. The long watch Is the hardest and the most remunerative. The men go on at 6:30 a. m. and work till 12 noon, then re port again at o'clock and work through usually to between 11 o'clock and midnight. The relief watch goes on at 7 a. m. and works till 2 p. m., returning at 6:30 to work through the dinner rush. The Intermediate watch Is beat. The waiters report at 11:30 a, m. and quit usually at 8. Opportunities for. tips are about equal In all these watches. The European rule of 10 per cent of the cost is generally Ignored. The aver age New Tork tip is about 20 per cent when persons dine singly and IS per cent In par ties of two or more. In most of the first class places the tip for any kind of service Is rarely less than 25 cents. There Is a new enjoyment for the lucky possessor of a powerful voice who can use it with sufficient lmpresslveness and dis tinctness. Some stage experience as actor or singer is of great assistance, but not all of the men who engage In this vocation have enjoyed this preparation. It Is In the factories of the manufacturers of phonograph rolls that this new employ ment is to be found. Some of the men at this work earn as much as $25 a week, and two get twice that sum. Both of these are able to enunciate clearly and have very good voices. Both have been on the variety stage. The duty of such an employe Is to an nounce Into the receiver before a song the name of the selection and of the person who Is to deliver it, not forgetting to men tion more emphatically than either of these facts, the name of the maker of the In strument "as sung Into the Blank-blank phonograph" he must say with both feet on the name of the machine. The habit of engaging music hall per formers and, later, noted actors and singers to use the phonograph, made the announcer more Important than he ever had been be fore. He has now to pronounce correctly foreign names and titles of arias In differ ent languages, and he must do all this In a way that will be understood. For these reasons It became necessary to have ca pable men; so the new profession of the phonograph barker came Into existence. In signing the bill known as the "Install ment blli" Governor Odell has alleviated In a way the life of many of the unfor tunate residvnts of lower East aide. For many years a.rents of consoienceless dealers have wheedled the Ignorant Into buying goods they did not need, usually jewelry, at prices ranging from two to twenty times their value, the amount to be paid in small Installments. The dealers arranged It so that the customers have skipped a pay ment; then they have descended upon the luckless buyers and demanded Immediate payment In full. If their threats did not secure payment suit was brought. By a piece of trickery on the dealer's part the defendants did not appear, and Judgment was entered for the specified amounts. The unfortunate wns then arrested, perhaps pulled out of bed In the early morning, and hauled off to jail by a corrupt marshal, the creature of the dealer. Usually at this stage the fear of prison overcame the victims and they borrowed right and left from their friends and houKht, their free dom from jail by paying what the dealers demanded. But If obdurate there has been nothing for them but to He weeks or months In Jail their terms as prisoners for debt. The legislation recently enacted provides that no criminal action can be instituted where the sum involved Is less than 1100, and Its effect Is already being felt. Dr. John B. Rich, who Is 94 years young and the oldest New Yorker In the city, says becoming a centenarian Is as easy as rolling off a log to anyone who will take the pains. He Instructed the Health Cul ture club the other night on the secrets of perpetual youth, which he gave as the following: "Be good-natured: be clean; exercise; be comfortable; sleep in the most comfortable bed you can get; don't eat twice as much as you need, and don't eat food that will abuse that poor old muscle, the human stomach. "The greatest wonder," he said, "Is not how people manage to live to the age of 100 years, but how so many of them manage to live for thirty-five years. Tbey haven't time, they say, to take a Tltt e exercise, they haven't time to study the laws of hy giene snd they put things Into their stomachs without a thought as to whether their food and drink are calculated to make good, rich blood." An odd time-saving device has recently come to the notice of the patrons of one of the large department stores of 'New York City. This Is an envelope enclosing the monthly bill, and, save for one feature. Is like the rest of Its kind; that part of the envelope upon which custom requires the writing of the address is cut away In a long ellipse. Pasted from the Inside and tight as a drum-head over the opening Is a piece of tough, transpsrent paper. It Is, In effect, an envelope with a window tn It. The time-saving arises from the fact that the envelope la not addressed at alt, but the bill, bearing near the top the cus tomer's name and address. Is so folded that when placed In the envelope the name and address will appear behind the window. "Wit Bound to Come." Indianapolis Journal. In delivering the diplomas to the graduat ing class at Weat Point the secretary of war aald: "Before you leave the army, young men, according to all precedents In our history, you will be engaged In another war. It Is bound to come, and will come." The secretsry spoke from history, which shows that we have had a war about every twer.ty-Ave yeara What will cause it, from what quarter It will come, or who our an tagonist will be are matters for conjecture, but the secretary was doubtless right when be said "It la bound to coma." Waltham Watches Known by their works. "TKt PtrfedtJ American Witch," an Hhutrtttd book of intertsting information abooi xuztches, 27 b sent fret upon request American WaSham Witch Company,' WtSJum, ILus. EEMIXO RIGHT AND BEING RIGHT. An Incident of Civil Wnr Time with a Moral. American Investments. In 1363 when Jay Cooke was carrying out Important financial functions for the gov ernment through the then secretary of the treasury, Salmon P. Chase, the later or dered of the house of Cooke 800 shares of Philadelphia Erie railroad stock, expect ing to pay for It out of the proceeds of a farm In Ohio, which he was about to sell. Circumstances came preventing the sale and the order was countermanded, where upon Cooke wrote inclosing his check for 14,200, saying that the stock had advanced In price and that the remittance represented the profit Chase wasn't very wealthy and it was a temptation to accept the situation, but he returned the check, saying: '".t Is essential for me to be right as well as to seem right, and to seem right as well as to be right." How many publio officials, etc., etc., etc. LIFE) BY THE CLOCK. Devices for lengthening- Life Tend to Shorten It. Boston Transcript. An eminent physician, at a recent gath ering of his profession, directed notice afresh to the dally tension under which most Americans do their work. We rise on time, he remarked, tn the morning, whether by an alarm clock, by the call of a servant or by habit, eat breakfast at.d read the paper on time, a clock In every room and a watch frequently In our hand. We then, on time, meet office and outside engagements, business appointments, con sultations, always preconslderlng the amount of time that will be required, snd timing the next engagement accordingly. Often we subdivide this time, and note by our watches exactly how long we can dis cuss a subject. This Is no exaggeration of the American habit. Even such breaks In works as are compelled by the need of physical refresh ment are brought within time limits. We eat on time Just as we transact all our business on time. If the typlc.il American were to be depicted In his most character istic attitude. It would be perched on a stool at a "quick lunch counter," consum- j ing his midday meal In seven minutes at the outside. Doubtless punctuality is a virtue. Doubt less also the practice of doing things x actly on time has won for us, as a people, a large measure of Industrial success. But, carried to an extreme, as It often Is, it Is wearing to the Individual. The people whose nerve break down from exhaustion In cident to overwork are often not so much the victims of overwork as of the habit of compressing every bit of work within pre arranged limits of time. Let any one try the experiment of doing a given piece of work steadily and with application, but without noticing by his watch or a clock exactly how much time he Is consuming, an! he will be amased to find how much easier It will go oft than when he Is timing himself, and scheming to bring the pre scribed task within a fixed number of minutes. We know a great deal more about sani tary matters than our fathers and grand fathers knew. We have hunted down mi crobes. We have concocted serums. Dis eases which were once regarded as visita tions of Providence we now know to be preventable and we take suitable means of preventing them. All these discoveries and new remedies ought to diminish the death rate and to promote longevity. They have not done so, as a matter of fact; perhaps they Tilght do so if they had a fair chance. The trouble Is that along with these de vices for lengthening life we are adopting practices which tend to shqrten It One of the most wearing of these Is the habit of bringing all the details of our work within exact time limits. PERSONAL NOTES. When the assassins tackle Prince Kara georgewlteh It will be necessary to go at him In sections. Henry Horn, one of the few survivors of the charge of the Light Brigade, has just died In . London. Senor Banehes Toca, Spanish minister of marine, has a naval scheme In hand which will call for an annual expenditure of about $50,000,000 for ten yeara Eight survivors of "the Forty-niners," who went from Baltimore to California In the early days ef the rush for gold, held a reunion last week. The youngest of them Is 79 years old. The four tallest policemen on the Phila delphia force will accompany the old liberty bell on Its coming trip to the Bunker Hill day celebration in Boston. Each of them is over six feet tall and their average weight Is 200 pounds. Mr. Chamberlain and John Morley are alike in one respect they both abhor phy sical exercise and never walk more than a few yards If It Is possible to ride. They hold that a man who works hard with his brain does not need great physical exercise. At the wedding of Mr. and Mrs. McCor mlck (Miss Ruth Hanna), In Cleveland, the other day, General Corbin amused the guests at the banquet with the following toast: "I will propose a toast to the real mistress of the occasion, Maggie, the cook." Henry Roeo, the wealthy Cuban planter who, It Is said, gave the greater part of his fortune In aid of the Cuban revolutionists, is confined In a New York asylum for the Insane. Mr. Roso's estate, which at one time was In the millions, has dwindled. It Is said, to S50.000. President Cyrus Northrup ef the Uni versity of Minnesota threatens to resign be cause of the nonpayment of his salary, which Is long overdue. The university ap propriation made at the last session of the legislature was wholly Inadequate to meet the expenses of the Institution. The most eminent cltlsens of the United States of negro blood will address the coun try In a book to be published In September entitled, "The Negro Problem." The race question will be discussed by Booker T. Washington. Prof. W. E. Burghardt Du bois, Charles W. Chestnut, Paul Laurence Dunbar, T. Thomas Fortune, Wllford H. Smith and H. T. Keating. David Nation, divorced huaband of the Kansas saloon smasher, celebrated his 7tth birthday last week at Iberia, near Oalllon, O., where he lives with his daughter, Mrs. William Riddle. Two other daughters and a son were present at the celebration, be sides many other guests. Mr. Nation was formerly a minister of the gospel and for many years was In the newspaper business. FACTS ABOUT SERVIA. The Kingdom Where Royalty Moves Swiftly to the Grave. The kingdom of Bervla lies In the Balkan peninsula. It has sn area of 19.050 squnrn miles and a population of 5.150,000. Servla lies between Bosnia on the west and Bulgaria and Roumsnla on the east. The surface of the country Is for the most part mountainous. Oold, silver. Iron and lead are found In the regions. The climate Is mild, though subject to the extremes characteristic of Inland eastern countries. The leading occupations are agriculture snd the raising of live stock; the chief products are hogs, sheep, wheat and malse Four-fifths of the people In the country districts live on their own land. The government Is a constitutional hereditary monarchy. The legislative body Is the Skupshtlna. The prevailing religion Is the Oreek Catholic. The history of Servla covers a long and turbulent period. The title of king of Servla was assumed In the eleventh cen tury, when the country wss In Its most flourishing condition. The Servian power was overthrown by the Turks In 1389 and Servla was Incorporated with Turkey about 146. A rising under Cierny George In 1804 re sulted In the expulsion of the Turks, but they reconquered the country In IMS. A rising In 1815 under Mllosh Obrenovlch wns more successful. The Turkish garrisons were withdrawn In 1867. The war against Turkey In 1878 was unsuccessful. Servla took part with Russia against Turkey In 1877-1878 and became absolutely Independent, receiving a considerable addition to terri tory In 1ST, The agricultural population Is scattered among a great number of villages, most of which consist of single, isolated home steads. The patriarch of the community apportions the work and distributes the proceeds of the labor. His ruling Is fol lowed without question. The Servian army Is divided Into three classes; the first class, embracing men be tween 25 and 80 years of sge, constitutes the standing army, which numbers 18,000 on a peace footing and about 100,000 on a war footing; the second class co'ntains men between 80 years and 87, who have served tn the standing army; the third claas, which Is only called out In extraordinary emer gencies. Is composed of men between 37 and 60 years. The total military strength of the kingdom Is estimated at 200,000. WHITTLED TO A POIWT. "Some men," said Uncle Eben, "says dat honesty Is de bes' policy, sn' den seems pufflckly wlllln' to give delr neighbor a monopoly of Its advantages." Washington Star. "It's an eight-hour day for about every body now, isn't It?" "Oh. no; not for the employers." "And why not for them?" "Because, If they had been content with an eight-hour day, they wouldn't have suc ceeded In becoming employers." Chicago Post. Teas Gracious! You're as cross as two sticks this morning. Jess No wonder. That's what I had calling on me last night. Teas What? Jess Two sticks. Philadelphia Press. The thrum of a patient piano filled the air with tremulous distress. "Your neigh bor next door seems to have a delicate ear for music," said the visitor. "I don't know anything about her delicate ear," said the afflllcted householder. "What bothers me Is her powerful hands." Cleveland Plain Dealer. "You are from Boomtown, are you?" said the passenger in the skull cap. "Well, our town Is to be congratulated. There doesn't seem to have been any distress caused, there by the floods." "Doesn't, heyT" retorted the passenger In the sweater. "Our baaeball ground has been under water for more'n a week, b'goahl" Chicago Tribune. "I shouldn't be surprised if Josh was goln' to be a great Inventor or eoraethln'," said Farmer Corntossel. "What signs has he shown T Inquired his wife. "I had a long talk with him last night. That boy kin make you believe more tilings that sln't so than anybody I ever saw." Washington Star. "What's up, old man? I never saw you look so haggard." "The 'Steenth bank Is up; that's what's up. And my deposit's gone up with it" "Oh! I wouldn't let a thing like that Upset me." i m not upset; merely lost my balance. Philadelphia Press. 'How about the golden rule?" he asked. I vouldn't advance you a oent on It," answered Isaacs, the pawnbroker." Chi cago Post. THE OLD KENTUCKY HOME. Rochester Post-Express. The sun shines bright on the bayonets and guns, On the cannon In the common and the aouare: There is musio In the bugle and the rolling ot tne arums, And there's muslo of the rifles In the The militiamen are mounting guard before the old Jan aoor. The mountaineers are massing for the fray. And It'a getting mighty lively In a dosen ways .ir more. In the old Kentucky home so far away. The orchards are In blossom and the per fumed air is sweet, Oh! the face of nature never was more fair; But the Colonels are a-shootlng at each other In the street, And the mountaineers are out upon a tear For It's Summer In Kentucky and without a feud or two, Without a chance to stab and shoot and slay. Life would not be worth the living where the meadow grass Is blue. In the old Kentucky home so far away. KEEP YOUR STOMACH WELL Ilorsford'a Acid Phosphate cures habitual stomach weakness, Im proves appetite, digestion and nu trition. It is a splendid tonic for all weak conditions. Insist on . having Horrford9r Acid Phosphate
