TITE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TirURSDAY, .TUIjY 23, 1003.
Tim Omaha Daily Bee
U. ROSKWATER, EDITOR.
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
State of Nebraska. Douglas County.
George H. Tzschuck. secretary of The Be
Fubliahlng Company, bain duly worn,
aya that the actual number of full ana
oomplet copies of Th Dally Morning,
Evening and Sunday Be printed during the
I 30.00 1 1.12
I ao.OTO 17 3O.0T0
l ao.cno is so.R7o
4 84,NtO 19 ao.WtO
I BO.MIO 20 nO,!30
( 30.XJO 21 T.7(tO
7 8T.IMK) 22 0,0
I n,7o n 80.800
I W.610 24 SO.BHO
to u 1,000 25 ao.uao
II 80,0.10 26 81.210
12 aO,4U 27 31.S1U
18 30.T30 28 27,20
H aT,tl 28 SO,tt
15 80,770 ft) ao.ua
Total 1J4.01
Lens unsold and returned coplos U.two
K.t tnt.i ooa.a4
Net average aalea 80,070
OEOHQB B. TZSCHUCK.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before me thla ann oay ot june, a. y.
M. a- ttUMjAia,
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PARTIES LEAVING FOR IIMMEB
Parties leaving the city for
the summer may hare The Be
sent to them regularly by
Notifying The Bee ' Bnalness
office, la person or by mall.
The address Trill he changed
It used to be "wait for the big show
Now It Is "wait for the Commercial
club trade excursion."
It seems that the earthquake season
In the West Indies is a pi In on. ' There
Is no demand, however, for Mount Pelee
to resume operations.
Anyone else who wishes to guess at
the value of the water works plant is
entirely privileged to do so. You can
guess as often as you want and without
charge.
We take it for granted that the resolu
tions of sorrow on the death of Pope
I.e passed by the grand lodge of Elks
at Baltimore- were adopted at Just
eleven by the clock.
Mayor Moores declares in nn official
communication to the city council that
on the date of the Inst city election .he
was a very busy man. This information
Is entirely surplusage.
If no other means are at hand to give
Judge HhrcuU credenttuls as a delegate
to the League of American Municipali
ties a special honorary position on the
city roster should bo forthwith created.
The World-Herald now explains that
Judge Sulllvau-would rather please the
railroads than run the rltsk of incurring
the enmity of an associate on the bench.
Judge Sullivan should ask his fool
frleuds to 'stop talking.
Nebraska socialists have filed their
state ticket along with a newly ndopted
party motto, '"ICconomlc equality.' The
next thing in order will be the publica
tion of, a cumpHign text book explaining
what "economic equality" is?
Official notice lins lieen given that, ex
cept for th heating, lighting and plumb
ing, the market house building on lower
Cnpltol avenue I completed. This is
very much like announc-lug that a steam
hlp Is nil completed except for a rudder.
; If the inspector of weights am meas
ures persists in getting after the short
nienNiire milkmen, the milkmen in self
defense will have to devise some way of
getting back at the short-measure cows.
It Is a poor rule thut does not work both
ways.
The college of cardinal Is like a Jury
to the extent that it must stay in ses
sion until it reaches, a verdict In which
all can agree. The cardinals, are at a
disadvantage Ih-hIJo th Jurymen, how
ever, In that they have no one who cun
discharge them If they fall to get to
gether.
In refusing to handle grain shipments
with Kansas City a the dtwtination
point. thA nillroiuU still haVe an eye to
the long haul and will be pleased to take
the conxIgmuentH If only billed to mar
kets further ust. Closing Kansas City
as a port of delivery is hard ou Kansas
City, but the railroads manage to find
the sliver lining every time.
One of Secretary rihuw's customs o:tl-
cera who has been trevellug abroad is
expected to recommend to the awretary
changes in the insiecUon regulations
tlutt will make the examination of hst.
gage twlonginit to returned to urUls lex
annoying. ,The way to eliminate from
the Inspection of baggage all the anuoy
lag features Is for the passenger to de
clare truthfully what dutiable articles
he la bringing in and to pay the duty
lustead of trjiug to evade it by smug
gllug Ucttrs.
Ml AT BE TOO KXACT1SO.
Japan Is perhaps more deeply inter
ested in the Manchurlan situation than
any other country, because the carrying
out of suspected Russian intentions
would threaten greater Injury to Japan
than to any other power, so that It Is
not at all surprising that the Japanese
government is not satisfied with Rus
sian assurances- and would bare its
ally. Great Britain, adopt more energetic
measures toward Russia. It is quite pos
sible, however, that Japan may be too
exacting In its demands and thereby
lose the support of other nations which
are Interested in the Manchurlan ques
tion. According to London advices, pre
sumed to be authentic, Japan is not only
persistent in its demand for the immedi
ate evacuation of Manchuria, but also
asks that a number of additional ports
be opened. As now understood the Rus
sian evacuation Is to take place in Sep
tember and it prolmbly cannot be ac
complished sooner. At all events the
time stated for it appears to Im satis
factory to the British government and
it is not at all likely that it will make
any attempt to bring alout an earlier
evacuation. It would seem pretty cer
tain, therefore, that Japan's demand for
an immediate evacuation will not have
the support of Great Britain. In regard
to the opening of additional ports In
Manchuria the , reported Japapese de
mand is very much beyond that of any
other power nnd consequently Is not
likely to receive very serious attention.
The United States, for Instance, has
asked for the opening of only two ports
and while this country would doubtless
be well pleased to have more opened it
will probably not at this time support
the Japanese demand for half a dozen
additional ports.
Of course this is a matter the deter
minatlon of which properly rests with
China rather than Russia, but the condl
tlons are such that the Chinese govern
ment does not feel free to act without
the consent of Russia and It is entirely
safe to say that the latter will not ac
cede to the demand of Japan. It may
faithfully adhere to the assurance given
In regard to the opening of two ports,
but she will oppose more than this. As
now indicated, Russia will endeavor to
satisfy in this respect the United States
aud' Great Britain, caring little as to
whether Japan is satisfied or not. It is
true that the letter's demand seems to
be In the Interest of the world's com
merce and it Is not to be doubted that
the result of compliance with it would
be favorable to American trade,' but it
has the appearance of an axactlon
which neither this country nor Great
Britain can properly become a party to
and without their support Japan will bo
compelled to recede from her demand.
The Japanese government Is manifestly
too much disposed toward a policy of co
ercion, persistence In which will cer
tainly not result to its advantage. , That
government should bear in mind that ao
far as the United States Is concerned it
does not Intend to have any serious con
flict with Russia over the Manchurian
question and this doubtless is also the
British position.
SHOVLD BK A WKST&RH UAH.
The suggestion of Senator Aldrich of
Rhode Island for the republican vice
presidential nomination next year, cred
ited to Senator Piatt, of New York, Is
not likely to be approved by any consid
erable number of republicans. Not be
cause the Rhode Island senator is lack
ing In nny qualification for the positiou
or Is not fully representative of repub
lican principles and policies. Mr. Al
drich is a very able man, who has been
of great service to his party and Justly
h-'.s the respect and confidence of re
publicans. But the very general feeling, probably
shared by President Roosevelt, Is that
the republican candidate for(vlce presi
dent next year should be a western man.
There will be no difficulty in finding In
the west a man In every way qualified
for the second place on the republican
national ticket of l'.KM, and the reasons
for selecting a western candidate are
perfectly obvious. It Is perhaps a little
premature to be talking about candi
dates for the vice presidency and it is
certainly quite useless to consider any
eastern man for the nomination.
THti AMMHiCAS CARDIBAL.
It is thought that Cardinal Gibbons
will exert a great deal of Influence in
the selection of a successor to the late
Pope Ieo. Not only is the American
cardinal ; free from identification with
any faction In the sacred college, but he
Is very high in the esteem of all its
members and as the representative of
the church in America- occupies a very
strong position as a counsellor. He was
held In great regard by 'the late pontiff,
whose profound Interest in . the church
here could not have failed to impress
Itself upon the cardinals. ' It has been
buld that the name of Cardinal Gibbons
Is on the lint of candidates and that a
certain party or faction In the college
will support him, on the ground that
an American would not excite the Jeal
ousy of European powers. There is
liardly a possibility, however, that other
than an Italian will be elected to the
papacy, so large Is the preponderance of
Italian cardinals u the college. There
have tacn pontiffs who were not natives
of Italy, but the last of these, Adrlano
VI, of I Mitch nationality, was elected In
1522, and it is safe to say that the long
line of Italian popes since thlrty-lght
will not bo broken in the election of a
succeHMor to Leo XIII.
Even before the death of Io there
wua reported to be some campaigning
among the cardinals and some manlfes
tatlons of xtroiig personal feeling, but
however this may have been It is to he
exiHM-tod that the conclave, which meets
uext week.vwlll be marked by the serl
oua and solemn conduct which should
characterise It In choosing a pontiff,
which is done by ballot. In regard to
the attitude of the Catholic natloua,
while probably they have preferences, it
is stated that there will be no attempt
to Influence or to Interfere with the
conclave.
WATKH WVkK ArPBAlStHEST.
The preliminary session of the board
of appraisers acting under the purchase
clause of the contract between the city
and the water works company already
discloses a wide range of difference be
tween the contentions of the opposing
Interests as to what is included in the
plant and what elements of value should
be taken into account.
As The Bee has repeatedly pointed
out, the city has practically gone it
blind in the steps it has so far taken
toward acquiring the water works and
bits neglected the ordinary precoutions
which every rational business man
would have Insisted on In a transaction
of such dimensions and of such vital im
portance. Everything hos been left to
the appraisers, although these men must
rely entirely upon information furnished
them aa to the legal limitations sur
rounding the purchase and the history
of the contract, supplementing them with
their own observations as to the present
condition of the property. On the ques
tions as to what should or should not be
bought with reference to those parts of
the system outside of our boundaries
and used to supply other towns such as
South Omaha, Dundee and Florence,
and what are the" terms of the franchise,
whether franchise value attaches to
those parts of the plant outside of our
own Jurisdiction, and if so, whether it Is
Included In the unexpired franchise for
which no compensation Is to be allowed
the city should have deflned its position
in advance and restricted the powers of
its representatives on the appraisement
board, devolving upon theru the duty
only of setting a valuation upon certain
enumerated pieces of tangible property.
When the appraisement is completed
the city will be confronted with the
overshadowing question whether the ap
praisement as made Is binding and be
yond rejection or appeal, placing the
water company In position to turn its
plant over to the municipal authorities
and enforce the award as any other
Judgment would bo enforced in the
courts. The Bee expressed the opinion
at the start an opinion which is shared
by the ablest lawyers who have looked
into the question that the city would
run an extra-hazardous risk in proceed
ing under the purchase clause of the
contract and that the safer course would
be to exercise Its right of eminent do
main specifically conferred in the char
ter through condemnation proceedings
by which the city would have had the
naming of all the appraisers and would
be able to reject their findings If unsatis
factory, leaving the company to appeal
in case the valuation were not accept
able to it
It is a matter of regret that even now
the taxpaylng ,cltlzens of Omaha, who
are directly concerned in every obliga
tion Incurred by the city, have not yet
fully awakened to the magnitude of the
water works purchase and the tremen
dous Influence It will have on the future
of the city.
The proposed merger of the various
Improvement clubs that have sprung up
in all the different suburban sections of
the city seems to be well under way
and a central body will be created of
representatives of all the constituent
clubs for the purpose of uniform action
on matters of general importance in
which all of the clubs are more or less
equally concerned. The great difficulty
heretofore encountered with these or
ganizations has been that they have
viewed matters from the standpoint only
of their own locality and operated ou
the principle of getting all the public
improvements centered at one point
without respect to the claims of other
parts of the city. It Is obviously neces
sary to make a proper apportionment of
the city's facilities for street, lighting,
street sweeping, hydrant service, sewer
connections, etc.,' and the relative urg
ency of the demands should be consid
ered. If the Improvement clubs will
ask only for what they deserve and
what the city Is In position to do, the
record of achievement will be more sub
stantial. After a full hearing In court on the
application for a mandamus, to compel
the granting of the High school diploma
withheld as a disciplinary measure from
an Insubordinate Cadet officer, the Judge
has come to the conclusion that the sys
tem of marking and credits in vogue
in the High school is not understandable
and not understanding It has declined to
Interfere. If the courts would only de-
cllno to Interfere with everything the
judges could not be made to understand.
writs of Injunction, mandamus and quo
warranto would not fly around so fast.
In this case, however, the school ought
to have a marking system that every
one could understand and which would
not permit of juggling without It being
readily ascertained. A system of marking-
and credits that leaves everything
to the arbitrary whim of the principal
and Instructors Is a good system to get
rid of.
King Edward's refusal of special de
tective and Ix-Mlyguard service for his
tour of Ireland iudicntea that he has no
apprehension of attempts upon bis life,
or, rather, that if such attempts were
made the soldiery around him would
be powerless to prevent, while on the
other band the conspicuous following of
such officers might incite exactly what
it was Intended trt avoid. The best life
Insurance the chief executive of any
couutry can carry is the good will and
confidence of hla people.
The state labor commissioner is re
ceiving letters from the iuterlor farming
districts protesting against the sending
of men who expect to get work aa farm
hands at from $2.30 to $.1 per day. Three
dollars per day and board is a trifle
luxuriuud even for . prosperous Ne
braska farmers to pay for field help,
especially when they, have been accus
tomed to finding men for half those
wages. Farmers can doubtless use all
the hands they can get at the usual
terms, but It Is not fair to have men
leaving city homes under a mistaken
Idea as to the amount of wages tbey
can earn In the fields.
The price of sngnr has gone up with
out waiting first for the Havemeyers to
make the usual charitable or educa
tional donations that would afford the
explanation for it on the same theory
that the increase in the price of oil Is
aacrllted to the Rockefeller philan
thropy. This will prove disappointing
to a lot of democratic newspaper organs.
Where Lafe May Land.
Washington Post.
Lafe Young has quieted down so since
the Iowa convention thst It Is believed
It would be safe now to offer him the vice
presidential nomination.
Thnraton's Terrlflc Tirade,
Detroit Free Freas.
After reading Senator Thurston's tribute
to the administration of the Spanish-Ameri
can war, our old friend. Mars, must have
felt like a bow and arrow In a roomful of
Krag-Jorgensens.
Soma of Them Ooatht to Bo.
Buffalo Express.
The qommlssloner of Indian affair will
recommend In his annual report that Indian
agencies be abolished. With th postofflce
scandals fresh in the public mind, the
coming session of congress should be a
good time to accomplish long-needed re
forms.
Evils of the Party 1.1 n.
Baltimore American.
A disastrous run on a Wisconsin bank
was caused by women who had nothing
to do but to listen over the party tele
phone llnea and who heard a fragment
of a conversation that startled them. The
removal of a receiver Is often a dangerous
proceeding.
Developing the Philippines.
San Francisco Chronicle.
During the few years the Philippines
hava been under American Jurisdiction
more has been done for them In the way
of supplying them . with the beneficent
agencies of modern civilization than the
Spaniards did during the 400 years In which
they held sway over them. They might
have . remained another 400 years undar
Bpantah sovereignty without enjoying many
Of the boons of civilisation with which
Americans have already supplied them. The
Filipinos are doubtless beginning to realize
the benefits accruing to them through the
change of rule. All of the Islands seem to
be In a perfect state of peace., When the
constitution and the laws of the country
are extended to them, as they should be,
they will probably be -ready to take their
place In the national organism as Porto
Rico has done, and proceed with a similar
development of. their natural resources
with the full realisation that the change
of national relationship was the most for
tunate thing that could have happened to
thjem.
Woman's Ideal Man. -
Kate Masterson In Alnslee'a. '
The Ideal man .as 'women would-make
him out to be If their several tastes wtre
consulted as a recipe would be Indeed an
Impossible He! . He -would be a creature
never seen on land or sea a monster that
only a feminine F oJieristelii oould create.
He would be part. Sunday school teacher
and part Don , Caesar beautiful of face
and manly of form yet . without vanity;
quick with . hi sword, yet a paragon of
mercy to the -'afflicted; deeply Intelligent,
yet never preoccupied; with the soul of a
poet and the pocketbook of a "broker; a
good Judge of a bonnet, and not too par
ticular as to cooking) charming of temper,
quick to forgive feminine faults; grand of
character, yet an adept In drawing room
persiflage. . Such a man If he existed would
have to live In a cage to be looked at and
photographed, for he would not be com
panionable to women pr to men. He would
be a freak, to be seen at a distance and
never to be loved, for when we look deep
we find that we like people more for their
faults than their virtues.
IDYLLS OP THE HARVEST.
How tho Eaatern Boys and Western
Girls Meet In Wheat Fields.
New York Mall , and Express. .
It
was probably scarcely expeated by
ttie hopeful parents . and guardians who
sent their young student sons to do
valiant battle for the cause of national
prosperity and well-being In tho wheat
fields of Kansas that the occasion would be
the harvest time of love as well as of the
golden grain. But If certain ldytllo reports
that come from the west are true, thla la
Indeed likely to be the case.
The Kansas and Nebraska girl Is not
like eastern girls, either In body or spirit
She can, on occasion, ride a horse with
out saddle; she can drive the reaper; she
can load grain or hay on- the wagon when
hands are scarce; and It is regarded aa a
proper part of her duty for her to all
wie center 01 me revolving sweep, at
threshlng-tlme, and crack her whip over
the horses and mules that supply the
threshing machine with Its motive power.
In the hsppy harvest fields in Pawnee
county, Kan., the tender-footed and ten
der-fingered youths from the east, . by
credible reports, have been compelled to
knock off work In the heat of tha day.
wnue tne rarm girls who have been
bravely helping out at the harvest work
have wrought gayly on, singing at their
ton. mat such scenes as this ahonM
occur is not in the least surprising, ex.
cept probably to the confident boys them
selves.
Who can doubt that such demonstrations
of feminine stamina and cheery courage
win raise me spirits and kindle the sen
timent of the flabbergasted eastern youths?
There la. In the first Place.
Ing to the. masculine sense of propriety In
the appearance of a girl In the harvest field
as mere undoubtedly Is In her confident
nd conquering Invasion of the university
ciass room, ana still more particularly In
ner rrequent and highly Inconsiderate sell
ures or the college honors. Ever since
the dsys when Ruth found grace In the
eyes or ttoaa when shs gleaned In hla
nelds, it lias been regarded as a prettv
ana poetic ining for young women to Bp
pear among the sheaves. And then, the
effect of the newness and strangeness of
all this Kansas-Nebraska episode has to
bo considered. Think of a worn and sore
and hot and discouraged youngster being
nursed back to strength and confidence by
one of these brown beauties of the prairies
No person of experience can doubt that
this Idyllic episode of the great harvest
trek will result In closer union of the east
and the weat In all sorts of ways. Good
luck to it! We may well hop that the
westwsrd pilgrimage of stalwsrt hut som
what soft-muscled youths will become a
regular and systematic a thing as th west
ward flow of money to move th crops
and that the young men will always bring
home with them, along with the financial
profits of their toll among th sheaves, a
sliest of buxom, high-spirited, warm
hearted weelern girls, as brUlea.
BITS OF WASHIJiGTO-l I.1FK.
Minor Scenes and Incidents Sketched
on tho Spof.
"Clem Ortseom" enjoys special privileges
In the big building occupied by th Stat.
War and Navy departments. "Clem" Is
one of the finest collies In America. He
was presented to General Corbln by Clem
ent C. Qrlscom. of th American steamship
line. The superintendent of the building
has a rule which bars out dogs, and
"Clem" cam under the ban. But 'Clem"
had made frfenda with Secretary Root, and
he Investigated th matter.
"Can't 'Clem Qrlscom' come Into the
building?" asked the secretary of Super
intendent Balrd.
"That Is the rule approved by the three
secretaries who are In control of the build
ing," was the reply.
"Well, If 'Clem' can't come in I'll get
out," said Secretary Root in a half laugh
ing manner.
But It waa a hint, and Captain Balrd
drew up a paper and carried It to Secretary
Hay. Secretary Moody, and Secretary
Root. It modified the rule about dogs to
the extent of allowing "Clem Grlseom" to
come and go and remain without let or hin
drance. General Alnsworth. who has made such a
name for himself as the head of the record-and
pension bureau of the War de
partment, tells this story of the civil war:
The chaplain of the regiment distributes
the mall. On one occasion a New York
regiment was very anxious about a de
layed mall and for hours had pestered the
chaplain with Inquiries about It. Finally
the chaplain put up a sign over tha door ot
his tent, which read:
"The chaplain does not know when the
mail will arrive."
Some time later an officer passing that
way saw that some facetious person had
added the words:
"Neither does he care a damn."
Pension Commissioner Ware, whose sense
of humor Is as acute as it Is broad and
deep, fairly revels In the highly original
letters that come to his desk in abundance
beyond that of the correspondence of any
t denartments. Ktit
tnnni' all those of recent date, the fol
lowing, with Its delicate tribute to his pred-
rnr. who had "turned down tne ap
plicant a couple of years ago, in his opinion
la entitled to the "bun
o 9 ..... .err. I nt Deal to VUT8
our ouiii - " r- - - - lit-
offits and I rite now to let yu no 1 am allfe
anrf to tnculre If yu are the salm or ir
- .... ,,n.laF a Vtnrl VI
down or tork thru the hung hoal and let
me no how I Stan lessen yure scairt outen
yu close
The vials of wrath that Xantippe is re
corded as having poured out upon her
philosophic husband In ancient history
are as nothing compared to some of the
communications that sometimes reach the
U.n.inn hnreau from irate claimants.
What some of them lack In the way of
ntl Enallsh is often amply counter
kaionrxt hv a Drofane and abusive vocab
ulary of ample dimensions. Here, for In
stance, is an emanation from a veteran
who thinks Uncle Sam Is not playing quit
foir with him. He says:
Sir: Yours ree'd. The contents of Which
no Mortal was more astonished nan I
VI .ki.i, . th Pnins. trouble. Pri
vations and Expense that I have done been
at And then to get the Scrall of such art
Epistle is a shame to Recency and the De
partment from which it reported to come
from They asks me this fool question,
L.kL .n.il treatment that you received
j.r,i.i T was In. I know. Baltimore,
AnnaDolis and Camp Parole. 1 suppose
they kept a record of all their patfence.
Ask them that tool question; "'J there
C , . nlvA me mv Abilities
and Strength or Give me Something for
my Sutopo't In My Old Days or else I
i"K t won't. I want my wrlghts.
I am going to git them and you have no
wrtght to deprive me ot them.
TTn In New York state lives a pension
claimant who has sounded a not of warn
ing to an over-cautious government In a
letter to Becretary Miicncoc. wuu
referred It to Commissioner War. She
y: .......
T have furnished the evidence, aii irai
has been called for, and If they want any
more Evidence they know the address of
all the persons and parties; and Ihey hae
made Evidence enough to have a thousand
claims lowed. If Not then It will have to
go to the Judge above, for I cant not and
wont spenu hiiuihti v . . " , , . . .
I have now furnished, this Thing of call-
n for the same ming - .......
rfh now. I wont put up
with It. I'll go without my pension first.
Rorretarv Hitchcock the other day re
ferred the following letter, addressed to
him, to the pension bureau for considera
tion: '
Befar the war there wasent no man
who could a throwed me down or made me
holler but now a goodlah sized man could
blow me over and lm so nervous I holler
when 1 heer a nog squea
or the Jista of my oald house grone with
the wind I ain't playin no baby ack Mr.
Sectary, but If you alls is spreadln 120
bills out in the Bon to dryyou mite Just
as well let me have a few as any nuther
ole soljer. I ort to be paid for my nerv
ousness. Th tension bureau Is wrestling with the
nrohlem whether one Orville James really
la a sufferer from dropsy. James Is a vet
eran of the civil war. who lives In a small
hamlet in New Hampshire, ine exam
iner have been taking testimony in nis
case and the evidence Is conflicting. But
th most remarkable testimony oi an is
given in the following affidavit, to which
on of the claimant's neighbors subscribes:
I varily believe that Orville James is
fatigued earnln his , leavln becos he Js too
fn.lt WRVI ZW DOUIIUB miu "
.ZL hV.r. thev thinks he hava
dropsy but I no he have no dropsy becos
he would bust if he had moar Insldea him
than he now hav, besides wicn ne are wun
out villous habits or references. I no he
have solid fatt and vlttles In him and no
dropsy.
Bavare of the vldders." said Tony Wei
lr. and so says a wearer oi me wkui iu
a letter to the Interior department In point
in out a few discrepancies in a pension
claim. The writer Is against permitting
any bunco game on Uncle Sam, particularly
when "a old rascalton" is eventually to get
the money. She writes thus in an anony
mous communication which Secretary
Hitchcock recently found in hla mail
There was a claim for pensions made by
Isaac Jenkins's wider for pension and don't
think she ought to have a pension, as his
wider has a koi nom miu n wuicmiuno
and rents coai uui, ... ...... -
nenter enop anu sis imB
money to boot. Mr. old Smith Is to get
her pension. He is a old rascnllon as all
knr. Whv don t you get him and
kill him. A wider heard a feller say she
is worth IS.000 or $9,000. See old 8. about
this pension, so don't get beat out of one.
Can't writ more.
A WIDER.
An asthmatle applicant Is supported by
the following extrsct from the letter ofne
of his neighbors:
ii sot diseased In his pipes and when
vi. ..i.. iMt wet with spit he whistled
u. A,Ant m-htatl no song, but lust a plain
stringy whistle. There wasent no mocking
blrtl business about It for It showed sorrer
and another thing he dldent whistle becos
he was happv. becoa the sicker he got the
better ne wdhuiw-
, a One-Siaed Reciprocity.
Washington Post.
Fre trad would open up to Canada our
horn market, with 80,000,000 of consumers,
while it wouli open to us the market of
Canada, with about ,000,ono consumers. We
cannot afford a one-sided reciprocity,
reciprocity that would give much and take
little. Ther is only way by which Can
ada ran acquire what she wants. She
can have "commercial union" by taking
political union along with it. But this re
public Is not anxious for that ooasumma
Uosk to b burned up.
yu hav cult tne oie man aim """
maglsty Holt Cakes Evans tend the skll
lett. if Evans has chalat yu up a tree
l aho y cin nourr
THIS DEAD POHTirr.
Detroit Free Press: He filled th human
imagination of what a pop ought to bo-
scholarly, devout, self-poised and whit of
soul. Even the papacy's bitterest enemies
came to concede that th church could not
be so very bad when so good a man con
trolled Its destinies.
Cincinnati Enquirer: Of a singularly pure
and upright life, devoted primarily to ad
vancing the church of which h was th
head. h never failed to use the great powr
of his place and the whole weight of his
benign personality In favor of peace and
the maintenance of law and order every
where.
Clnclnatl Commercial-Tribune: No trib
ute that man could hav paid to him, and
to his great work, could hav demonstrated
more plainly that the world recognized In
him sincerity of Christianity, prudence,
moderation and genuine love for his fellow-
man. He was a great pop and a God
fearing man.
Chicago Inter Ocean: A righteous man
was Pope Leo. A aealoua churchman was
he. and yet a man whose seal wis always
tempered by the wisdom that cornea of
experience and wide knowledge of men and
their needs. His church Is stronger for
his conservatism and th world Is better
for the example of his life.
Milwaukee Sentinel: He was a church
man above all things, but hla sympathies
wer so broad, so catholic, so genuinely
human, that he found room In hi heart
for all mankind and made a place In his
prayers for those who did not acknowledge
his spiritual headship. No mor saintly
man has ever presided as th bishop of
Rome than he whom the world now
mourns.
Minneapolis Tribune: He magnified his
office beyond ecclesiastical bounds because
his love for his fellow man waa boundless.
The counsel from th highest Beat, which
his predecessors often spent on arid doc
trine, he lavished on great questions of hu
man conduct and social law, common to all
sects. This, aa much as the winning charm
of his person, has built up around him the
common sentiment of admiring affection
that makes all Christian nations and sects
kin In their mourning for his death.
Minneapolis Journal: So Leo lies dead In
the great palace where for so many years
he has been. In the phrase of his predece
sor, "a prisoner." He will be burled from
St. Peters with great ceremony and -his
name added to the long list of popes, great
and small, to be remembered as one of the
most honorable and faithful among them
one possessing unusual powers of penetra
tion and one whose aim was unquestionably
to exercise his Influence, so far as he dared,
toward the extension of peace, happiness
and concord among men.
Milwaukee Wisconsin: Ths great man
who lies dead In tha Vatican withdrew
from the scene of his earthly labors with
tne good opinion of all mankind. It Is a
consummation which happens to few even
of the few who deserve It The whole
world has stood, as it were, beside his
bedroom door, waiting for th reports from
his physicians. There was for a time hop
against hope that in spite of his advanced
years he might be spared. The Influence
of his wise, gentle, dutiful Ufa will long
survive a potent addition to th stock of
good that Is in the world.
St. Paul Globe: A life Ilk this is full
of beauty and of solemnity. Simplicity and
kindliness as the flowering of an authority
before which princes bowed; a dignity un
impaired and without offense; a conscious
ness of such nearness to the divine as lent
to words and action its high .significance;
a serenity and a nobility that gave to high
and low the keynote of this wonderfully
pure ana iorty character, and withal a
talent for leadership that guided to new
and larger fortunes th mighty church ot
which he was the supreme head these were
the qualities of the great man who lies
In silent state in the world' most ancient
capital. In his life and death the world
has looked upon th beauty of holiness. .
St. Paul Pioneer Press: Not the Cathollo
world only, but all Christendom, feels
deeply the death of Leo XIII. For days
the people of every nation hav ' been
watching with anxiety, admiration and
wonder th aged pontiff's struggle with the
nevltable. That a man of his years, loaded
with responsibilities, burdened with a Weak
and weakening frame, should by the power
of his will resist the onset of death for
over a fortnight and retain to tb last the
clearness of mind and that cheerfulness
of disposition which had won for him th
admiration of the world has seemed little
short of miraculous. It has revealed a
store of Intellectual and spiritual energy
which, though it had long arrested atten
tion, had not before been thoroughly ap
preciated. Minneapolis Times: In his relation to hu
manity In general the pope always struck
a generous and broad not. His ascetic per
sonality was belled by the redundant and
generous Interest In all good work which
he kept to th last To everything which
his position permitted him of active and
practical , agency In better living he was
always generously adequate. His wide
learning, his scholarship, his poetic feeling,
his liberality, his executive and adminis
trative ability and his beautiful toleration
have brought th church of his desires
through great tribulations to a new plaes
among the Christianising powers of the
world. From being a church of domination
It has become a church of ministration and
Its leavening of the spiritual capital of
things mixes peacefully with the Protestant
faiths of the new century.
Indianapolis News: Though Leo was a
great pope, he was probably a greater man
and this because he had few of the oppor
tunities that his predecessors had to demon
strate his greatness as pope. He had
troublesome and even serious problems to
deal with, but on the whole his career as
pope waa, comparatively speaking, un
eventful. He lived In a great time arid he
lived greatly In his day and generation.
No man can successfully administer the
papacy unless he be a man of real power.
In soma respects, Indeed, Leo s task was
more difficult than on Its face It seems to
have been. For In our day the oonfllct
between old and new Ideas has been strwnu
ous. The people ar force now that they
have never been before. The pope had not
simply, as of old, to maintain relations with
kings and courts, but he hsd to know and
understand tho people and to win their
sympathy and support.
What tb Pablle Wants to Know.
Boston Transcript.
Ex-Postmaster General Smith ,haa ad
dressed a letter to Postmaster General
Payne, which is really directed to Civil
Service Commissioner Proctor, and deals
with the charge that the rural fre de
livery service waa "packed" In antlclpa
tlon of classification. Mr. Smith denies
tha "Dacklng." and In th . matter of
covering persons In postoflloes when they
cam within th classified servlc by
operation of law, say that the statutes
not th department waa to blame, which
appears to b tb fact. A Mr. Smith
promises another letter, to b addressed to
Mr. Proctor, directly, tnr is assurance
that this controversy will be prolonged un
til the patience of the public Is exhausted
and ths blue pencil Is cslled Into play. So
fur It seems to relate to matter three or
four years back, and th details ar often
so technical that they must be meaning
less to many readers. We think that the
Dubllo Interest In what went on under Poat
mas tar Oeneral Smith's administration Is
waning rapidly. What th public really
Is Interested In Is what I going on In th
department today. . . .
BUY Alt AD CMCYKLAWTJ.
Washington Post: Bryan and Cleveland
ar both to speak In Chlesgo, but not to
each other.
Cincinnati Enquirer: Can th story that
Colonel Bryan Is going to Europe be truel
Has ha considered th danger that the coun
try might get away from him In his ab.
sence?
Philadelphia Inquirer: It la possible that
a simultaneous event at Gray Gables pre
vented Mr. Cleveland from taking that deep
Interest In Bryan's Chicago speech which
he might otherwise have felt.
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune: Imme
diately on Mr, Bryan's return from Eti-
top and Mr. Cleveland's releas from
nursery duties, why not have them hire a
hall and fight It out to a finish?
Chicago lnter-Ocan: The latest news
from Princeton Is not calculated to make
JIYllllam Jennings Bryan feel any more
comfortable. Orover Cleveland has now
aa additional reason for wishing to forge
to the front.
Milwaukee Sentinel: Th Nashville
American notifies Mr. Bryan that he has
degenerated Into an Impotent kicker ami
cheap common scold." Mr. Bryan's
pleasantries seem to be coming borne to
roost.
Indianapolis Journal: Mr. Bryan's char
acterization of Mr. Cleveland as a low
comedian la hardly mor apt than his views
of things In general. Cleveland's part
In the politic of th country has bordered
on tragedy at times notably when he up
set th who! business basis of the country
with his free trad message but it hss
never contained anything of comedy.
Indianapolis News: Mr. Bryan's latest
attempt to explain his disastrous defeats
In 189 and 1900 by casting odium on Mr.
Cleveland Is not Impressive. Th simple
fact Is that Mr. Bryan has been tried and
found .wanting. Every opportunity has
been given hjm to persuade the people of
the truth of his theories. No man In the
history of the country has ever had such a
chance. Yet he Is not satisfied, and, twice
beaten himself, he ventures to criticise the
leadership of a man who was twice elected
and ihrlce a candidate, and whose hold on
tho confidence of the country Is so strong
that many people are actually thinking of
him as the one man to lead the party to
victory next yearl
Philadelphia Record: Mr. Bryan is grow
ing mor and mora tiresome. His pretense
that the Democratlo party was beaten In
1)9$ and 1900 on account of President Cleve
land's unpopularity la a little mor foolish
than most of th things he Is saying. The
Democratic party was beaten In both those
years because William Jennings Bryan was
its candidate, and he had Injected a quan
tity of Popullstlo rubbish Into the party
platform. He not only attacked the Integrity-
of the currency and prescribed iin
idiotlo remedy for hard times and low
prices for wheat, but he attacked Invested
capital and oven th Supreme Court. After
a mun ho been defeated twice for tha
presidency good taste demands that he
should retire from politics and keep still;
hla explanations of hi fallur are likely to
b absurd, and in the case of Mr. Bryan
tbey ar worse than childish.
PERSONAL MENTION.
Harold Morton Adklna of Syracuse. N.
T., has been engaged aa instructor In vocal
rnusio at 8yracuaa university.
Death for prominent men has had new
terrors since Murat Halstead began to
work off his rapld-flr biographies. ,
President Smith of Trinity college, New
Haven,' will retire next year as head of the
Institution, and will receive a life pension
of B.000 a year thereafter.
Sir Frederick Treves, the famous English
surgeon, who has Just retired, established
record In performing 1,000 consecutive
operations for appendicitis without a death.
Prof. W. J. McGe of th ethnological
bureau of Washington has been appointed
chief of tho Department of anthropology
and ethnology at th St. Louis World's fair.
Mr. Elisabeth Custer, widow of the gen
eral who waa killed in the massacra of the
Littlo Big Horn, is In Washington trying
to secure a pension and government em
ployment
Eugene F, War of Kansas, United States
pension commissioner, has undertaken to'
obtain and restore for presentation to the
Kansas Historical society the scaffold upon
which John Brown waa hanged at Harper's
Ferry in 1859.
A Motart house is to be built at Salzburg
aa a memorial for th great composer, and
a fund of $115,000 Is now being raised to
that end. It will be used as a concert hall.
and also the home for a conservatory of
music. Th house In which Mozart was
born still stands In Salzburg, but is owned
by a private Individual.
General Fltahugh I yes hag accepted the
Invitation of th Daughters of th Revolu
tion of Jersey City to deliver an oration
at th unveiling of th Paulas Hook battle
monument, Jersey City, on October 24.
Oeneral Lee is a descendant of Light Horse
Harry Lee, who commanded the Americans
in th Paulus Hook fight, July 19, 1779.
SIMMER SMILES.
Unole Hi Ain't you nlovin' varseir
Mlrandy. aeeln' th waves sloshln' about?
Aunt Mlrandy no: seeln' all them suds
remind me of waahln' day. Chicago New.
'Uncle William, what la yo' opinion of
politics?
"I dunno, suh. De last times I had any
dealln's wld It, It only gimme a dollar fer
two votes: Atlanta (jonsutution.
Old Lawyer Why do you feI that your
client will lose his case? Have you ex
hausted every means at your disposal to
Youna Lawyer No. but I have exhausted
all the means at his disposal. Philadelphia
Press.
'Some men." said Uncle Eben. "dat
wouldn't dare nallN a shingle on a roof,
cause dey aln t learnt to be carpenters,
magines dey kin step In an run de hull
ruv'ment wiroui a aay s experience:
Washington Star.
Rlobbs The cable to Alaska misht to
make It easier for the gold huntsrs to get
money.
Blobbs I ran to see now.
Rlobbs They can send home for It now.
Philadelphia Record.
First Scot Wot sort o' minister has ye
gotten, Oeordle?
Socond Scot -Oh. weel, he's muckle worth.
We seldom get a -glint o' him: six days o'
th' week he's enves'bl. snd on th' seventh
he's Incomprehensible. Ram's Horn.
TTlln. Noshl" cried a man a he swam
to the side of the srk: let me set on hord.
By th way, thla Is a bad day fr th raoe."
' What race? snia monn, iDcauuuuBiy.
"Human race! Ha, ha!"
That axttles it. Any man who d snrtnr
a Joke as old sa that deserves to drown!"
snd he pulled In the life line. And It was
still raining ion aers punesman.
. THR I MPIHE'S Rl BAIVAT.
Mllwsukee Sentinel.
A book of rule, a frown upon my brow,
An Indicator, a good eye and thou
Beside me. shrieking "Lobster thou art
rank!"
Oh this, methlnks. were agony enow.
Strange, Is It not. that when I call a strike,
I 'rou In every bresst sincere dislike?
Yet If I call that self-same curve a hall
I am abused by Tom and Dick and Mike.
What boots it though a player b tagged nut
Beyond th slightest shadow of a doubt?
The very Instant that I wave my hand.
From stand snd bleachers comes a threat
ening shout.
I sometime think that when my race Is run.
When three strike have been called, and,
all undone.
I hear St. Peter read his riot act
1'U kick oa hi decision, just for fua.
