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    THE OMAHA DAILY I1F.E: TtTCfiPAY. DECEMHKn 22.- 1003.
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
Stats of Nebraska, Oouglns County SSJ
Oenra-e B. Tsarhuck, secretary of The Be
Publishing Company, being duly worn, says
tnat Uie actual number 01 tun ana cumi.";
Punter' b printed durtn"ii5 month of
November, lfltft, was as follows;
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Bee1 BT.400,
I i, 80,030
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Less unsold and returned oopl,.J. lo,za
Net soul sales..:..'. ..aa,T I
Net wvra sale..... ao,780
OEORQE B. TZSCHUCK.
Subscribed in my presence and swora tit
tefor me this Qth day of November, A. D
14. 1 M. B. HUNGATB,
(lieaJ.) , Notary Public
Bosnia haa Japan's answer and ap
parently that's about all It ever will
Sot I
" Berlin was to smoky yesterday that
light were kept burning all over the
d'." Tell it to rittsburg. '
Even after so short an absence, Corf-
ul Davis notes quite a chahge In the ap-
pearanco of AJczandretta. ...
The weather man seems to be hesita-
ting whether to give ua a green Christ-
mas er a wain iroin reinaeer lana.
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South Omaha is getting gay. It wants
an opera house when a theater with a
danca hall annax might do just as well.
The, most ' active and profitable In
dustry In Omaha Just now is the issue
of marriage ' licenses and connubial
Spain purposes marrying King Ajfonso
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to rrtneess Maria of Bavaria. The lat
ter ia aged 13 and haa begtm to tire of
her dollsv - ' i .. .
t 1 '.. 11 ij
Omaha attorneys want a law library
and they want it bad, and they don't
care who pays for it for them, Just so
they get it ,
The railroads of the west and south
' have a secret suspicion that the wreck
"hoodoo is working more houra than the
union allows.
umcago physicians said Murderer 1
"lcek was only feigning his Insanity.
Yesterday he hanged himself Just to I
how he wasn't Joking:
. The Chicago alderman who has been
sentenced to six months in jail will at
least be mured tUo embarrassment of
going In among total strangers.
The Chinese monetary commission has
declded to -'recommend the coinage of
silver fit a ratio of 32 to 1. And Bryan
In St Petersburg trying to hobnob with
the cxarl
la Sioux City a surgeon yesterday
ook out a piece of a man's broken neck.
The man. lived and now every Christ
mas turkey In Iowa ba plucked . up
aome hope of pulling through.
. The chief trouble with the working-
men who want to answer Parry la the
public prints la that they are almost as
' long-winded as Mr, Parry and know
' no better when to stop.
Some one at Dubuque has aent the
secretary of the treasury a conscience
contribution of $30. . Such aucrlfice ao
bear Christmas should be sufficient
atonement -for almost any old sinning.
It might not be out of order for. Gen
eral John L. Webster to do a little mis
sionary work with Colonel Ernest E.
Hart, the republican national committee
man from the kingdom of Council Bluffs.
The railroads have again put In their
special holiday rate and are busy per-
suudjng the wayfaring mortal that It is
cheaper to eat Chrintmas dinner at home
than to pay for it at hotel or restaurrtut
price. -
September SO is to be "world's fra
ternal congress day" at tho St Louis
exposition which means that upon that
date the habitual "joiner" may wear all
his lniilguia st ouce and prove to his
wife that he really spends his eveulngs
where he says he dues.
The TurkUh sultan will relieve his
strained rt la tlon with Uncle Sam by
tendering auutner apology, ouijr this
time it will be done by proxy v through
the governor, of Alexsndretta, who is
to ba held responsible for the lustilts
to the American consul tliei-e. When it I conserve the public interests la tiie ques-couis-s
to apologizing the sultan and his tlon to be considered and that it would
orfi. ll sLitu are experts from long and
frenent trustee,
WO BRSAKtRH AtlKAD.
Undor this caption, ,tho New York
Cornmprcisl, a pnppr which, an Its name
iniplloa, is In clone touch -with the
financial and commercial Interests of
the country, points out that there I"
nothing in existing business conditions
to Justify apprehension, but on the con
trary much to warrant confidence. It
remarks that a fact which cannot be im
pressed too forcibly or too frequently on
the tmslness mind in these day is that
stock-market investments and .stock
market incidents are of steadily dimin
ishing importance' as aids in determin
ing; the general business sentiment in
this country, or the real conditions and
prospects in trade. ' '
This fact, snys the' Commercial, has
had Illuminating- illustration within the
past twelve month, , "With bumper
crops, congested railway traffic, normal
activity in construction and general
trade, heavy exports of natural products
and manufactures, large imports of gold
and fourteen-cent cotton, the stock mar
kets of the country have been for weeks
at a time at different periods the only
'soft spots' in the whole business situa
tion." It adds that the anti-panic man
lfestatlous are nearly ail absent, that
money market shocks which once would
have precipitated crises have recently
come and gone .without leaving hardly
a scar, and that all signs point-toward
a continuance of Prosperity-for every
legitimate .and properly managed busi
ness. There la unquestionably sub
stantial ground for this lcw. The
country is not a dollar poorer because
of the firlnknge of stock prices, which
had been enormously Inflated. But there
has been a vast addition to natlonn
assets in the abundant crops and the
output of mills and factories. The count
try is very much richer than it was a
year ago and such alight changes as
have taken place in conditions furnish
no sound reason for apprehension. We
fnre gtm the most prosperous people In
the world and so .far as feuman wisdom
can discern there, are "no breakers
ahead."
A PCHPLEXIHO QVKSTlUlUatXTLtD.
Not the least of the perplexing ques
tions with which the government bad to
deal In the Philippines was that of ar-
ranging for te withdrawal of the Span-
ish friars and -the purchase of. their
lands. It wrs found that the people
generally were extremely hostile to the
f rial a, whose policy, it was charged,
had been one of extortion and oppres
sion, and our government decided hat
they must withdraw from the arfhlpel
ago and sell their lands, this being
deemed absolutely necessary to the res-
toratinn and maintenance of nonce.
This decision . was submitted, to the
Cothollc .othorltles at Ilome and after
Bome m,c,iB8lon was accepted, the late
Pope 1eo ng the expediency of
I "withdrawing the- friars. Since then ne
gotiations have. been going on for the
pnrchaao of . the friar lands, pnder an
thorite givep hy ,congles to. the rhtlip-
pine jjrivernmehf, . and recent report
,tated ' that 'n ;Bre'"9ent had boen,
reached by,, which the friars will re
ceive . f 7,250,000 for 403.000 acres, thaH
sum bejng about one-half .what they
bad asked. They are said to be some
what dissatisfied with the amount to be
paid them, but of course will have to
accept it. How many of the friars are
still in the Philippines Is not reported,
but all to whom objection 'has been
made will leave and be replaced by
others, so that the interests of the" Cath
lie church In the Islands will suffer no
detriment.
BTRtxuTBtH ins vummihsiok.
-The business lntetestsVof the country
demand that the powers t the. Inter-
state Commerce commission' be strength
ened. Tbey have been urging this upon
congress for years and a renewed appeal
is to be made to the present emigres.
A bill has been introduced in both the
senate and the.' house further defining
the dutle8 nJ Pwer" 01 the commis-
sion and it will be pressed for cousidera
tlon and action. It is not a radical
measure, lta simple purpose being to re
habilitate the commission with authority
to WennIne, after fall hearing of all
parties in interest what changes shall
be made in a rate complained of, or
any practice affecting the rate, for the
transportation of persons or property,
found to be discriminative or unrea
sonable, such determination to be im
mediately operative, subject to suspen
sion by a circuit court of the United
States upon review on application of
the carrier. ' '
This authority was exercised by .the
commission for a period of ten years
after its organisation, when it was de
cided by the supreme court of the
United States that the authority did not
exist because it was not expressly con
ferred by the provisions 'of the Inter
state commerce act It is poluted out
that without this authority the commis
sion Is powerless to remedy wrongs
found to exist in interstate transporta
tion, its present authority being limited
to the determination of fte fact whether
or not a rate or practice complained of
is Just and reasonable, and, if found
otherwise, to notifying the carrier to
cease and desist from IJs continuance,
the carrier , being free to make as slight
a chauge therein as it may see t
Thus the bill introduced in congress
proposes to give legal effect to authority
formerly exercised by the commistilou.
I to the general satisfaction both of the
commercial and the railway interests of
the country. There does not appear to
i be any valid reason why the railroads
should object to such legislations. If
they formerly found satisfactory the
exercise of the authority which it is
how propoaed to confer upon the com
mission It Is reasonable to suppose hey
would do ao again. The railroad view
of it, however, should not be the
I weightier one with congress.
Will It
do so seuis unquestionable.'
I In Us aanuul repotf the .conmdion
speak of the beneficial results of the
legislation of the last congress amenda-1
tory of the interstate commerce act and j
expresses the belief that never before in
the railroad history of this country have
tariff rates been so well or generally
observed as they are at the present time.
Yet there are still preferences and dis
criminations effected in ways that the
commission has not the power to rem
edy. The report soys that while the
latest amendatory legislation -greatly
aids the observance of tariff charges It
affords no remedy for those who are in
jured by such Charges, either when they
are excessive or when they are in
equitably adjusted. The correction of
this is contemplated in the proposed
legislation.
CLAIM ALTOQtTHtR TOO MVClf.
When It comes to claiming everything
St Louis Is not much behind Chicago.
The recent selection of t . Louis as
headquarters of one of the reorganized
army divisions impels the St Louis
Globe-Democrat to point out the fact that
St Louis started' the first exploration
of the west ever undertaken by the
United States government by Captain
Lewis and Captain Clark. We are told
also that . General. Pike had St Louis
for his headquarters when he made bis
qaest of 1805-6 for the source of the
Mississippi and again when be was on
his exploring tour along the Arkansas
andk Red rivers. All these expeditions
were military affairs conducted under
military discipline and regulations.
Again, in 1823, Colonel Leavenworth
selected St Louis aa his base for con
ducting . the campaign against the
Arikaries, far np on the Missouri.- In
the expedition that fitted out in St
Louis in 1832 Abraham Lincoln, Jeffer
son Davis and others, who became fa
mous later on, took part .
Last but not least St Louis claims to
be geographically and phy Biographies 11 y
.great strategic point, located nearer
the geographical center -of the United
States than la any other place of any
Importance. Besides the advantage of
location, it Is claimed for St Louis that
it is near the confluence of 10,000 miles
of navigable waters in the great Missis
sippi valley. , ,
Air of these claims of the vintage of
1S03 are too musty to be taken seriously
In 1903. . The exploits of - Lewis and
Clark cut no more figure on the military
map of the twentieth century than does
the explorations of Fere Marquette or
the expedition of Fernando De Soto.
The St Louis of 1850, With from one
hundred to one hundred and fifty steam
boats lined up daily, on its levee, trans
porting passengers and merchandise over
1,000 miles of waterway, Is not the
St Louis of today, with less than two
dosen steamers doing the business on
the waterways now reduced to' about
3,000 miles for the purposes", of com
merce. ' ,
Without disparaging the" advantages
enjoyed by St Louis, Qirmha modestly
claims, and has a right to claim, to pos
sess superior facilities for the d'rtriou
tlon of army supplies and troops to the
military posts now existing along the
transcontinental lines of traffic and
travel. Omaha is by several, hundred
miles nearer the center of the United
States on the railway map from New
York to San Francisco than is St LoulS
or any other mid-continent city. But
Omaha will gracefully yield the palm to
St Louis as division headquarters of the
army Just because it cannot help Itself.
A few days after the recent fire that
cost four precious lives of the fire
fighting corps, assurance was given by
members of the city council that proper
safeguards against a recurrence of simi
lar asx'identa 'and accidents by explosives
Btored in or sold within the city limits
would be taken at an early' day by
an ordinance providing for the inspec
tion of all buildings used for storage.
For some unexplained reason np steps
have yet been taken in this direction,
The question naturally presents itself.
Where is the bitch?
Secretary Root wants )t distinctly
understood that he stands by the pro
motion of General Wood from first to
last and he Intimates that there is, not
another officer In the army who would
not like tovhave the same reward for
similar service. It is'charged that the
promotion of General Wood is . purely
personal and political, but It Is certainly
nlaln that the opposition to his con
firmation Is admittedly more persona
than political. ' ,
The anthracite coal combine Is again
engaged In the patriotic work of bus
pending mining operations temporarily
for fear the coal supply might get ahead
of the demand and thus force reduction
of prices. Having gotten the consumers
accustomed to. the figures set during
the strike period the coal barons do nqt
want to run any risk of having the price
level lowered tr fear It cannot easily
be raised again.
Under the plans and specifications
made by the army general staff we will
rely on the marines to protect ' Ameri
can interests at the isthmus for the
present but we will also have a . re
serve of regulars in convenient read!
ness to reach the vicinity of the canal
In the event that more vigorous action
is delred. The Colombians are entitled
to this advance information as a tip to
avoid trouble.
Our German and British cousins are
fighting the battle , or Waterloo over
again to determine whether Biucher or
Wellington was the real hero. It is
harmless battle and history win not be
changed even if one side accomplishes
the improbable feat of convincing th
other. . -
Latest telegraphie advices from Pin
Kidge are to the effect that Bed -Cloud,
the famous ex-Sioux chief, is dying.
liUHinii'h lV Bed Cloud has been on
tho p-.t of i" ill rr at ldt two, years.
the announcement that he is still dying
la not very startling.
The final report of the relief fund for
the families of the four firemen killed
while on duty shows that Omaha's
geueroslty can be counted on whenever
the occaslod requires bjut please let us
ave no more such deplorable occasions.
Most of the members of congress will
go home for the holiday recess, although
affords no chance for another con
gressional 'mileage grab. It Is cheaper
to ride home on a pass than to pay
board at Washington for two Veeks. '
A Jylca Oat look. .
Indianapolis Journal. "
Emdoyes of the Steel trust will not b
unduly extravagant In the matter of Christ.
mas gifts this year. The stock, for which
many of them paid 182.S0, la now worth tu,
and on top of that they all have been noti
fied of a 10 per cent cut In their wages.
Limited Relate for Roarars.
' San Franolsco Chronicle.
If the president succeeds In broadening
treaties with foreign powers to Include the
extradition of those who are charged with
the crime of bribery Canada will ceaa to
bd an asylum for that class and It will be
no longer a safe refuge for ex-Captatn Car
ter's confederates in the Savannah frauds.
Greed's Auailni Deaeeat. '
New Tork Sun.
Th Philadelphia. Christmas tree dealers
who saturated 4,000 trees with oil and then
burned them In order to keep prices tip by
more limited supply deserve to be hanged
on the tress that are left till they almost
gasp for breath. Are there not 4,000 fami
lies In Philadelphia that can't afford to buy
Christmas trees at any price? ,
Grata OanMUf IXbta. '
Philadelphia Press. '
Peter Jan Men of Nebraska has escaped
th payment of ' his notes for $10,000 by
pleading tlfat they were given to a Chi
cago firm for losses Incurred by speculating
In grain options. The Nebraska supreme
court held that such speculations were
mere gambling and that the debt could not
be collected. The Chicago brokers had
pay ail of that loss excepting their
commmlsslons. This is hard on them, but
would be a good thing for. the publlo
if every state were to hold such transac
tions as gambling and the contracts con
cerning them unenforcfbley law.
t Roll of Hoaor.
' ' New Tork Bun.
There were 996,646 pensioners on the rolls
on -June 80, 1903, and the pension bureau
estimates that there are 200,000 survivors
of the civil war who hav not applied for
pensions. This number Includes some not
entitled to' pensions under the present law
ana some wno ao not need or are too
proud to accept aid. The death rate of this
"unknown army" la estimated at 4 per
cent for this year, and about 14,000 of its
members .W1H .apply ' for pensions. The
bureau estimates that in ten years the
'unknown. army" will cesse to be a factor
In the transaction of the nation.
1 - ,, aeeesafnl Tkosrh Peer,
Everybody's Magaslna.
We have fallen under a universal witch
craft. A sens of the power and luxury in
money beyond ail the wonder tales has sud
denly come to ua. , It has turned our
fashionable society into a materialism
which Is no longer ashamed of Its poverty
of Ideals. It is hard and merciless of heart;
Is skeptical of iinworldly motives; , Its
Smartest relish is for tae strokes and ruse
of the manipulator of finance. In times like
these it Is good to remember Agassis, who
refused to lecture at $500 a night because
he Was too busy to make money; Charles
Sumner, who declined to lecture at a price
because, he said, ks senator, all his time
belonged to Massachusetts; Ppurgeon, who
refused to come to America to. deliver fifty
lACtllre Af XI nfln tits'! mirlnr ha ftmilrl
do better he could" stay In London and try
to save fifty souls, and Emerson, who stead
fastly declined to increase his income be
yond 11,300, because be wanted his time to
think. Such stories of fine haughtiness did
not seem quixotic to the young men In col
leg thirty year ago. A generous Idealism
was abroad and It was unashamed.
HIfa Finance and Valvar Wealth.
January Century.
Lt us see what has bwm, gained. Th
debauch of prosperity has been exposed
by the revelation of the reckless methods
In ''high finance." Captains of Industry
have been seduced to the ranks, and Some
of them deserved to be drummed out of
camp. , "The water has been squeezed out"
of ( aot a few highly diluted securities.
though also In the, process, alas! out of
many tearful eyes those of the widow and
the helpless snd tiged whose trust in
trust has been so sadly misplaced. Great
IS the conservative vatu of this long-ex
pected arrest in the, mad rush for en or
mous wealth. It has set th country think
ing, snd jthlnklng Is about the only thing
th country has. riot lately done in ex
cess. It wlU be" well if the thinking
goes deep enough -lewer' than the 'mere
consideration of the financial distress
caused by the traders In publlo confidence;
and down to the philosophy of happiness
as related to wealth. We are bold enough
to believe that through the sorrow that
makes us wise we are likely to reach
reaction from the vulgarity of high-piled
luxury (now no longer rare enough to give
distinction to its votarie0 to a "new goa
pel of simplicity and genuineness baaed
en the things most worth having. Mean
while' th power of pretentious wealth
can never seem to us so real or awe-In
spiring as It did before the recent revela
tions of toy finance.
.,- FI"1KEN-CENT SOLDIERS.
Eaetera Kdltor Jeaaps a tae Ooaa
ElStrlarstl,
' Brooklyn Eagle.
lie who contemplates seriously ..the
formally announoed United States army
experiments to discover Whether able
bodied men can do hard wprk and keep In
good condition on meals costing i cent
each, may see in his mind s eye every
United States camp and barrack a Do-the
Boys hall, and every field campaign a wild
revelry of hungry foragers. The outlook
not alluring. The United 8tates Is proud
Of the American soldier, ss a manly Amer
ican cltisen. , The nation haa no use for
lS-cants-a-day persons In uniform. .
It Is probably true that men can live
tand work, and even think on three S-eent
meals a day, sufficiently prepared. But
the grood old English expression, "having
stomach for a fight" will mean nothing to
such men. Energy, the habit of quick de
cision, capacity for the Initiative, cannot
be expected of them. And If iron set their
namelea longings adrift In aa enemy'
oountry It would be a ease. of "how the
turkey , gobbled that our commUsary
found" and "how the sweet potatoes fairly
started from the ground" from start to
finish. -
The chaap eoldlar is the bad soldier, th
world around. It Is the "five-meal, meat
fad men" of Kipling who are worth baying.
Uncle Oass'ls neither a pauper cor a skin
flint. He can afford to give his boys bat
ter en tketr bread. Dmldea, the beat wa
to supprees militarism Is to make It ex.
Denstve. Luckily .the - nation Is able to
faOrly eastuue that thee Omaha esperl
aue&t Uave only aa adadwnlo algnuiuanoa.
THE ARMY.
Tread of Affaire Gleaned frem
1b
Army aadh Navy Register.
The Army board of. ordinance snd fortifi
cation has not taken up the question of
further allotments for the benefit cfV the
Lang Icy flying machine. That Inventor ban
not made request on the War dcpartmrtit
for additional funds, though he my do
so Ins'much as neither he nor any of his
assoclnte experts regards the solution of
mechanical flight as Impossible. The three
attempts which have been mad and which
finally resultd In J he destruction of much
of the mechanism are said to find Prof.
Trftngley with no diminution of enthusiasm,
hope or confidence. The disasters have
been unfortunate, but they do not dispose
of the question by any means.
An Innovation will be Included In that
staid and sedate 'volume, the official Army
Register, when It appears on the 1st of
February, 1904. The ages of each officer
of the active list wlH be given In the In
dividual record. This will sppear In the
form, of the respective dates of birth In
the column where appears the name of the
place of nativity. The new . feature will
be a great convenience.- It Is also probabls
that a page will be added giving the pros
pective statutory retirements for the suc
ceeding year.
Plrnnl officers of the army are much en
couraged by th Success of thelrexperl
menta with wireless telegraphy between
forts on' Long Island sound, where cod
and other messages have been sent for a
distance of ninety-seven miles. The dis
tance between Fort St. Michael snd Nome,
Alaska, is only eleven miles greater than
this, and there is therefore much, reason
to hope that messages will be successfully
exchanged between these two places, where
xfp to the present time only signals can
be gotten across. However, the signal offi
cers have found that a system that will
work admirably at ono place -will fall at
another. Further, It Is thought that the
Ice which forma In the waters between
Forf St Michael and Nome has some
deterrent effect upon the transmission of
wireless messages.
Arrangements have been mads with the
United States geological survey so that
certain desirable military Information shall
be added to the maps of that branch of
the government. The details, of the plan
have not been., perfected and It Is not
known just how this purpose will be ef
fected. Th geological survey maps arer of
course of most accurate compilation and
with the military information added will
be of great Importance to the War depart
ment These additions will probably j be
incorporated on a special, confidential map
which will not be accessible to the public,
being added to the arohieves of the mili
tary Information division.
There is a possibility that General H. Ct
Corbln will be appointed permanently to
the grade of major general In th army on
January I on the retirement of lieutenant
General Young and the promotion of Major
General Chaffee. This would make Oeneral
Corbln a general officer and In line of suc
cession to the place of chief of staff. The
vacancy In the position of adjutant general
will accordingly be filled by the promotion
by means of detail to that billet of one of
the colonels of the corps, the choice rest
Ing between Colonels Hail.Jietstand and
Wagner. The first-named officer ia the
beneficiary of a bill Introduced this week
There will be several colonels of civil war
record appointed brigadier general and re
tted and a list of such Is now In the po
ssession of Secretary loot '
A good deal of interest attaches. toth
situation ,wh!ch, wll) prevail In the War
department when .Governor Taft succeeds
Secretary Root. This will pVobably be
about February 1. It has been said that
the relations of Governor .Taft and Oeneral
Chaffee, who will by that time be chief
of staff, are not of the most cordial char
acter, due, to the difference of opinion
which prevailed when General Chaffee was
on duty In Manila when there was much
conflict of authority and clashing of views
between the military snd civil authorities
In the Philippines. It may be aothorlta
tlvely staged that no such uncongenial re
latlonship exists. Of course there' were
differences of opinion between the military
and civil officials and there were several
passes between Governor Taft and General
Chaffee, .but the personal relations be
tween the two men are very pleasant, and
General Chaffee. Is too good a soldier to
create any lack of harmony. Apprehen
sions of any disturbances In the equanimity
of the ' War department and Interference
with army legislation ar altogether pre
mature and- unwarranted.
'The genera! staff of the army has before
It a number of changes in army uniforms
recommended by -the quartermaster gen.
eral. These include th cloth cap of col
lapsable form for use In the garrisons and
on board transports when the campaign
hat Is not altogether required. Another
innovation is that which provides a leather
thong, by means of which the campaign
hat may be secured to its Swssessor. Still
another, change Is that which contemplate
brown cloth for us In th chevrons of field
uniforms. It has been decided to abandon
the project of a metal chevron as being
too conspicuous . and cumbersome. The
cloth proposed would be a darker shad
than the khaki of the "garment and wlth
the insignia on the collar will suf&e for
the purpose of identification.
There, fa not likely to be sny remount
system In the United States army, no mat
tcr what Jnay be the report received from
General William H. Carter, who is making
sn exhaustive personal Investigation of the
European method. There has been some
question at the eapltol of tke value of any
Inquiry along the line of Oeneral Carter's
nranent Investigation. The main objection
to the remount system Is that of expense.
It will not be long. It Is foreseen, before
there Is a cry for a radical pruning of
estimates and appropriations, and any
.DroDosltlon which would require the ex
pendlture of a large sum of money would
have to be promptly shelved. Bo far from
a-Wlna Its approval to the remount Idea,
congress will not consent to sn appropria
tlon of less than $100,000 for the establish.
ment of farms for the raising or army
horses. This Is a plan which has been
suggested 'a an economical method for
nrnvtitinr animals' for military us. Th
army Is likely to get its horses by pur-
chsse under contract, as it nas oeen aomg.
Asarrlca'e l'ala Distiaetloa.
. Baltimore American.
Denmark rlaims a point of superiority
over the 1'nlted Btates by Insuring old
maids. But then, the United State has
no old maids. That forlorn, dependent
and despised class of the human specie
la extinct in ini country, n i uun
Is old, every woman Is Independent and
ail women are aaaertiv to a degree that
no man In his sober senses would dare to
condemn. , ' . '
- Get a Haaaaser, ftatekl
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Tills S about the time -ol year when
the Ineffably mean man talks patronls-
Ingly about having to pay for the things
which -liis wife presents to him on Christ
mas. Jut as If his wife were not
st )?kholder in the establishment WH
trust th lady will be amart anough to
buy clears , that she would aot permit
him to sruok la the house.
DOISUS 1
PERSONAL ROTE.
A special session of the Louisiana legisla
ture haa been called to consider the boll
wevll evil. Meantime the bug In question
ia holding no legislative sessions at all; his
work Is purely executive.
Waldorf Astor, the haughty young son of
William Waldorf 'Astor, the self-expatriated
American, has gone back to London, car
rying with him his stony British stars
and a vast deal of other Impedimenta.
Mrs. John J. Ingalls has been sked by
the Kansas exeoutive council to go to New
Tork to Inspect th clay model of the bust
of former Senator Ingalls, which la to be
placed in the Capitol at Washington.
A strange coincidence Is the appointment
by Postmaster General Payne' of a name
sake, Henry C. Payne, to a position In the
Zlon City (III.) ros to ftlcs, - The latter Is
not a relative to the postmaster general
snd Is a Dowlolte.
Edwin F. Jones, former lieutenant gov
ernor of New Tork state, but best known
to fame as "Jones, He Pays the Freight"
has become a novelist His novel, "Richard
Baxter," compares Tavorably with many of
the novels of rural American life. -
Wu Ting Fang, formerly Chinese minis
ter to this country, has been sppolnted
vice president of the newly "created Io-
psrtment of Commerce In his horns govern
ment. It will be his province specially to
look after the foreign commerce of China-
It Is reported the Standard Oil-company
is too poor to glv It employe the cus
tomary turkey this Christmas. The com
pany hasn't mad a raise within a week
and Its melancholy condition suggests that
the great American knocker ' is taking a
vacation. '
One of the senate employes was seated
comfortably reading a newspaper In a quiet
comer of the chamber,, with his feet
cocked np on a projection from the wall.
Senator Kean of New Jersey happened
along and said with mock severity: "Take
you Teet down. ' This Is not the house of
representative."
Chicago club women have started a move
ment for the reformation of men's trous
ers. For ages past this garment has Irri
tated mankind,'- provoked domestic war,
rent nations and filled Gehenna with lost
souls. A glimmer of hope nowvjooms up,
giving promise of brighter days and happi
ness for man. Bagged and buttonleas
trousers must go. Club women Bay so.
That settles It"
Charles McKeen Dursn. president of the
Hardin County bank of Eldora, la., holds
a remarkable record for oontlnuous service
In different positions of trust. He has
been, with the bank named thirty-five
years, treasurer of th city of Eldora con
tinuously for twenty-Ove years, clerk of
the First Congregational church of Eldora
for over thirty-five years and treasurer of
the Eldora Cemetery society for twenty-
one years. He Is one of the trustees of
Iowa college at Grlnneli and takes a great
deal of Interest In that educational Institu
tion. .
HB DIDN'T HEED IT.
Governor Earning- a4,000 a fear Re-
terns a Disability Pension.'
-', .Portland Oregonlan.
Governor Bliss of Michigan has recently
come to the conclusion that he doesn't
need the pension of 111 a month granted
him ay th United States government for
disability. - In his letter to the commis
sioner of pensions he says:
'I relinquish the pension only because I
doubt ths propriety of continuing as a pen
sioner when I am not In need. My dis
ability was fully determined by two exam
inations, one under Commissioner Evans
and the second under your administration,
eiich conducted by ' two' competent phyii.
clans, tesultlng in aa 'order placing me 'on
th rolls at ill a month. My intention was
to donate this money to the work of the
Grand Army of the Republio, and this I
have done." ' , ..
The disability from 'which the governor
suffers has not prevented him from earning
$4,000 a year as governor of Michigan.
Nevertheless, be has been drawing pay
from the United Btates as a disabled sol
dier. As to his pretense that he only drew
th pension to give it to the Grand Army
of the Republio, ths . New Tork Sun has
this to say:
"Governor Bliss was mors than able to
pay 11 a month out of his own pocket to
the Orand Army of the Republic It is diffi
cult to resist the impression that he has
been generous st the expense of a too
generous government. And it has taken
him some time to find out that he could
live without the pension." . - -
This is a severe but just comment on
the conduct of Governor Bliss, who has
probably concluded to give up his pension
In order to set forth the fact as a political
advertisement. Ths pension roll if full of
rich pensioners like Governor Bliss, who
sre perfectly able to pay for their con
tributions to the Grand Army of the Re
publio out of their own pockets, without
obtaining a pension from the government
which they "did not need" (
If Bliss did not "need" a pension, hs
was not in moral equity ensiled to a pen.
sion except under a gentral te-vlo pension
bill, which haa not .yet been enacted. A
man who is an energetic, active politician
and successful man of business, who Is
competent to earn $4,000 a year. Is not en.
titled to a pension for "disability" simply
because he cannot perfdrm severe manual
labor In consequence of old-time military
services. A pension Is not a bounty." A
pension belongs only to those veterans who
"need" It, and an able, forehanded, rich
man who can earn $4,000 a year ought to
be ashamed to. draw a little pension from
the government on the pretense that h
only did It' in order to give It to the Grand
Army of th Republic, .
11 DID.VT KNOW A THING.
Gaeat Flnancler la Receptive Mead
for "told Bricks. '
New York Evening Post
A certain severity toward "Wall street
throughout the covintry should change- to
sympathy wherever Mr. Steele' testimony
before the shipbuilding inquiry is really
pondered. And the more It Is considered
the more Indefensible will seem the general
Impression that our great financiers ar
monster of cunning tand duplicity. Take
the sale of the Bethlehem Iron works, for
example, for which. In part, stojk of the
Shipyard trust was prdd. Mr. Steele Velng
asked what he, as seller, knew about that
stock, answered. "Nothing." Being pressed'
to say why, then, he had been willing to
accept it In payment, for a valuable going
concern, h remarked that ba thought It
was good stock! people had told him so; he
had ven expected dividends snd expressed
some regret fhat then had never beta
forthcoming. It Is this wholly trustful
attitude which brings great banking houses
very, near to average human nature. The
western farmer who haa a gold brick in
his pest or the Yankee who haa taken
stock In a get-rlch-qulck concern, will see
that be and the great! financier are knit
tnnihar bv a common liability to error
end a common proclivity to believe what
ver,they ar tuld. Such disclosures of the
h Lima a . neerueai ununr iu tmiwi,,
walotooat of high finance ar moat salu.
.tary.--
A Kaawt rraaaaet.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
If eotton oontlnnea to go up perhaps we
shall yet gat "poor wsuliais" when w pay
far thaia. ,
HOW, MAST MEALS A,DAVI J
Tople for PrnfltaMe llaeaaslea Over ,
fh Dessert.
Boston Transcript
Have you ever taken time to reckon the
multiplicity of the theories nowadays with
regard to the number of meals that should
fill out the day's far and the hoars at
which they should be eaten? If you have
done this, the probability is that you
emerged from the study In arithmetic con
vinced that It makes precious little differ
ence what a man Is doing ss long aa he Is
possessed of a sufficient amount of faith
In the line he Is following1. For ypu can
easily call to mind half a dosen, df your
acquaintances who say that their health
ha Improved 100 per cent since thsy can
celed their breakfasts and took to eating a
rather hearty luncheon. And within sound
of your voice are as many other persons
who declare they never knew what perfect
health meant till they cut out the midday
meal altogether, allowing a satisfying'
breakfast and a not too late dinner to
cover tho amount of food consumed through
tho day. Then come to your mind th
lusty exponent of th theory that flv
meals a day are none too many t keep
ths boy In fuet, and another set who gloat
over the robust condition they have wooed
and won through clinging to a regimen
that allows but one square meal a day. '
And if you feel to take a firm stand for
or against any one artiole of food or drink
and are looking for examples to help yon
to a decision, you get quite a much con
fused In any attempt to decide who has th
right of the case with him. One) will tell
you he oannot drink coffee because It alTeots
him In such .and such a way, while an
other will tell you that he never could get
through his' day's work without its gently
stimulating Influence, snd that he knows
It benefits him beoause hs always sleeps
Ilk a baby after drinking it late at night.
Going through the lint ef things thst men
eat and drink you will find the earn pro
and con apply, and It becomes fearfully
bewildering before you get half through. th
list -So If you car to search the records
of food causes that medical journals hav
champlorfed, say, for th last century, you
Will find that what was blest In one deoade
was decried in the next And then you
know you aren't the only one who has al
most been swamped by contradictory evt-
ri,tiM In tit mu nt tiA Ttnnle Vtt
food. When, however, you get where you
are convinced that soms great occult moral
principle underlies these differences, whioh
are, after' all, only Superficial, and then
undertake to study this principle snd It
ramifications, you are bound to hav your
first real. -satisfaction from the problem, ,
though you probably will not be abl to get
off the fence In your cogitations oa this
aspect Of it ' . '
PASSING PLEASANTRIES. -
Madge They say she got that gown ah
Is wearing at a bargain.
Dolly i shouldn't be surprised. It looked
aa It It was half off. Towu Topjoa.
She I don't caret I just know you're
wrong.
He O come, now, dear,-why do you per
sist In saying that? v
Bhe Because you won't admit It Phils?
delphla Press.
First Cltisen (Indignantly) I am surprised
that young longhead would lend himself to
any such scheme.
tiecond citizen Lend himself Why, man!
he was bought Judge.
"Hare is an Item," said the man at th
copy desk, "about a young fellow that
broke Into a Boston man's house and eloped
with his daughter. Ulv m a head for it"
"Head It, 'Work of an Iceburglari' " said
the night editor. Chicago Tribune. '
"Tou hold my future happiness," h told
the girl. . .
"Why don't you hold It yourself f she
asked coyly.
And she wasn't so heavy that ha couldn't
do it easily .Chicago, post ,',.v . ,:.
"Tou have omitted two of th very most
important from this list of Christmas
hooks."
"What are theyT"
"The pocketbook and th checkbook."
Detroit Free Press.
"People do not take Into proper account,"
said the broad-minded man, the nervous
strain under which we live. It is necessary
to make allowances for some of our pubilo
officials."
"That's th Idea," rejoined Senator1 Bor-,
rhum. "And liberal allowances, too."
Washington Star. ...
He Didn't ' you know that you Were
standing under the mlrtletoef ,
She Why.no! I didn't feel anything
Town Topics. .
A MORAL TALES,
Carolyn Wells In the Reader.
Bald Santa Claui, " "TIs Christmas vi
(The animals looked pleasant).
And each of you will now receive
Ills yearly Chilslmas present .
Put I'd be glad if every guest
Would mention what he'd Ilk the best.k
Tha Tapir said: "That please me,v
l" state succinctly, therefor,. .
If I may be so bold and free.
Thn only thing I csre for v.
Would, be those matches oa the shelf.
With which I'd like to light myself."
His wish was granted. Then upspak
A llmlil llltla AdriM! , '
"Hr, but a trifle It will tak
To make my Christmas gladder;
A slate and pencil, if you please, '
Would let me do my sums with ease." (
The Reindeer said: "Tou may belteva
I'd b a happy fellow. .
If I were aura I would recelv
A good-slsed nmhrellow:
And, also, Td like four goitsh-
Es and a rubber mackintosh."
The Pig a fountain peri desired;
The t ow, tin horns requeetsJ;
The Horse, for a new hat acquired.
His gralitude attested. .
The Caterpillar saM: "I sni
Proud of my cMerjillarsham,"
Sgo all of them weregay and glad,
And hey were happy, very;
They liked th preaents'that -they had
And m'sxed exceeding merrv.
Pear Humans, at your Christmas f oast a
Pray take a lesson from th beasts.
There is no specific for
consumption. The nearest
approach to a cure is right
living and Scott's Emulsion.
No matter what the treat
ment may be Scott's Emul
sion will prove a valuable
addition. It has often turned
the scale of' health the right
(way. Because Scott'a Emul
sion contains the pure- cod
liver oil it furnishes heat and
fat The hypophosphites pro
vide tissue-food, bloc-tood
and marrow-food. The com
bination of the two represents
a wonderful form of nourish
ment and one that can be
readily taken and retained at
any stage of the disease.
Scott's . Emulsion gives best
results when used most reg
ularly. Made a part of the
consumptive's regular diet it
will invariably afford .relief.
Occasional use of , Scott's
Emulsion is a test unfair to
the Emulsion and the patient
We'll y aunpl tree epse nana!
aCOTT A BOW MI, wParltnattfTrs.