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TTIE OMAnA DAILY TtEE: WEDNESDAY, MARCTT 16, 1904. Tiie Omajia Daily Bee. B. ROBEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNINO. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily Bee twlttinut Sunday), One Tear. MOO imuy ne and Sunlay, one year Illustrated Be''. One Tear t ") Sunday Hn, On Year Saturday Bee, Or.e Year Twentieth Century farmer. One Year 2.1)0 l.M 1.00 DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Dally ! (without Sunday), per copy... 2c Dally Bee (without Sunday), per week...uo Dally (I Ml (Including Sunday), per week.lio Sunday Be, per oopy & Evening Bee (without 8unday), per week. 60 Evening Bee (Including Sunday), per week 10c Complaints of Irregularity In delivery Ihoulri be add re need to City Circulation De partment Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha-City Hall Building, Twenty-fifth and M Street. Council Bluffs 10 Pearl Rtreet. Chicago 1S40 Unity Building. New York 233! Park Row Building. Washington 611I Fourteenth Street, CORRESPONDENCE. Communication relating to new and edi torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Baa, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps received In payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not serentfd. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, as.: George B. Tiachuck, secretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly sworn, ays that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bea printed during that month of February. 1904, was as follows: I 18 SO,4BO lM,4tO 17 80,370 KK.XHO 18 80.3IMI 4 IflMIIlO It 81.IV40 ( JH,000 20 HO.BTO XM.IIMO 21 37,820 I Vft.HIO & 81.040 2H.K10 4 23 8 1,1 HO o.wo 2 83.;o 10 3;!.K7i 26 84,a44 11 HWUt 20 81,44M It iVt.VMt 27 81,T 11 ito.tUO 28 1T,0K 14 UHMMt a Sl.tKttl It .so,avo Total STT.litO unsold and returns! copies.... ,( Ket total sales HU7.473 Net average sales 20,912 GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before in this 1st day of March, A. D. lH. M. B. H UNGATE. iBeal) Notary Public. Balfour, appears to hare found bis rolce and lout hi head since Joseph Chamberlain started up the Nile. For a town that has been so numer ously captured by the enemy Fort Ar thur seems to be singularly Ignorant of the fact Reports from eastern Asia go a long ,way toward proving that the writers of fiction nre not all contributors to the magazines. When scientists meet to talk of trade It would seem that In tbls,age nothing is of interest that does not articulate upon commercialism. St Patrick's day may now take on a greener hue since the Irish party has defeated the ministry In the British House of Commons. Perhaps the supreme court can now ba successfully appealed to also to pre vent the merger of our state university with Mr. Rockefeller's coal oil factory. It may be that the incorporators of the ' Northern Securities .company of Canada were but trying to rest under the shadow of a great name, yet hardly probable. It .cost Ireland's educational fund 500 to defeat the British ministry, but the statesmen at the head of the enterprise would have thought It cheap at twice the price. Having decided to buy the Panamn canal Uncle Sam's experts are now en deavoring to ascertain Just what the French Canal company has for sale that It wants to dispose of. . Fugitives in conflict with United States laws have o long shown a par tiality for Canada that it is not un natural for illegal trust combinations to look In the same, direction. The rural mall delivery carriers think they are entitled to more generous com pensation from Uncle Sum and they re not slow about asking for it What Is more, they ou;ht to have it. 1sJaaaaaaaaMSsjsJaaaasJM The democratic schism in Nebraska must be becoming serious indeed when It . gets the double column editorial hrlek In the local pnpouratlc yellow way from the dally wr news topic. John Mitchell will be oue of the most popular men in America if the mine owners will reduce the price of coal cor responding (to the decreuse in wages iwhlch Mitchell udviscs the miners to ccept Another survivor of the charge at Salaklava is deud. From the obituary columns it may be opined that Teiiny on used a poet's license when he said that all of the immortal UK) dUT not ride back from those' Russian guns. : The reason advanced by Mayor Rose tof Milwaukee for vetoing the resolution ft pay Superintendent I'eurse ftf.OOO a year is that the school board ought to feave given preference to a local man conversant with local conditions. Mayor &om could have given much stronger Reasons. , ' The (electric lighting company Is not the only offender with unsightly poles la the business district The city Uthorltlee should play no favorites, but bould force all the wires to come down that can be burled and the substitution bf ornamental iron iKxts for 'the ugly forest timbers where overhead wires fere essential. ' 1 j ''South Omaha democratic candidates fere going in for pictorial effects in their nty campaign. A before-and-after ex hibit would be appropriate one por trait of the office seeker trying to elbow lils way up to the piecounter and an other clad tn a smile of contentment nfter the coveted stool had been cap tured. Too bad there Is not enough pie Ifl aiou&d. THE DlSaKRTMQ UPIMOH8. The dissenting opinions in the merger rnse nrp certainly entitled to considera tion, because they may at some future time become the basis of a change of opinion on the part of the supreme tri bunal, but there is really nothing in them that Is likely to commend Itself to the general public Judgment in regard to the matter at Issue. With all defer ence to the wisdom of the distinguished Justices of the court that did not agree with the decision of the majority, it must be said that at least two of them were governed by that old-time idea of state's rights which is obviously incon sistent with such regulation of inter stote commerce as Is clearly given to congress by the constitution, wblle as to another the view that the anti-trust law does not apply to railroad combina tions 'Is so manifestly untenable, in view of the repeated .decisions Of the'cotirts, that it is somewhat surprising any Jur ist of prominence should advance it The position of Justice White, relative to the state's right feature of the case, Is not at all astonishing, but that of Justice Holmes will certainly cause a good deal of surprise and we do not think it will have very much acquies cence. Its proposition is that railroad combinations, whatever their purpose may be, are not amenable to the anti trust law, although all other combina tions affecting Interstate commerce may be. The greatest danger to the public Interests are undeniably from the com binations of railroads and If the anti trust law does not reach these of what real value Is It? There Is great respect for ' the dis tinguished Justices who In this case are in the minority, but their opinions will weigh little with the public. RXAL KM ATE LOASS BT BANKS. There are bills in both branches of congress which propose amending the nutlonnl banking act so ae to'permlt na tional banks to loan money on real es tate security. The proposition is op posed by Secretary Shaw, and we think very properly. In the opinion of the secretary of the treasury while the pro posed plan would bo helpful to national banks in many places, it might prove generally an injury to these institutions, since it would be inevitable that in many cases they would make loans on property or investments in securities which would be uuavailuble in times of financial stress. In a letter to the sen ate committee having the bill introduced in that body in charge, Secretary Shaw very clearly and conclusively points out the objections to such legislation and it seems to us that they are quite con clusive. Wblle the measures before congress purport to place limitations on the pro portions of a bank's assets that could be Invested in mortgages, in practice the proposed legislation would not always be effective. It would be possible that a bunk might be so managed that ud der certuiu conditions practically its en tire resources would bo tied up in real estate. In a reference heretofore made to this proposition we expressed views similar to those since conveyed to con gress by the secretary of the treasury and we do not doubt that they are very generally entertained by those who take a practical view of the matter and do not desire any departure from the long- established policy under which the na tional banking system has been success fully operated. We do not understand that the proposed policy Is favored by any considerable number of. national banks, the probability being that the great majority of 'them do not desire it AS TO CANADIAN RtVlPRttClTT. In the opinion of a great many people, both in the northwest oud In New Eng land, there is no more important ques tion for the future determination of the American people than that of establish ing closer commercial ' relations with the Dominion of Canada. There is a well organised movement In this coun try for the purpose of promoting public interest In such a policy and it is not to be doubted that it is of very consid erable strength and Influence. It is sup ported by the fact that our trade with the Dominion has attained large propor tions and that in order to maintain It we must make some concessions to ' our northern neighbor. One of the most urgent advocates of reciprocity between the United States and Canada takes the position that un less there Is something speedily done to improve trade' relations this country will Inevitably lose a large part of Its Canadian 'business through an Increase of the Dominion tariff against American goods and therefore In favor of those of Kngland. It is urged that Canada no longer feels under any necessity to re quest closer trade relations with this country and that if the United States Insists upon adhering to existing condi tions the Inevitable reeult must be (something In the nature of a tariff con flict that will result to the detriment of our trade nnd the benefit of that of Eng land. This is a threat which has been often heard during the past few years, but which has made no great Impression upon public sentiment in this country. Even In New England, where the reci procity sentiment is especially strong, there does not seem to be any great ap prehension of anything being done by Canada Inimical tn American trade, while in the northwest the propaganda In favor of closer trade relations with the Dominion appears to have lost some thing of Its original zeal aud activity. The explanation of this Is simple. The trude of the United States with Canada Is still growing and for the obvious rea son that notwithstanding the tariff ad vantage which the British manufactur ers enjoy the goods of this country are preferred by the people of the Domin ion. Our manufacturers are not only able to undersell the manufacturers of England In the Canadian markets, in almoet ' j lloe, but American prod ucts are preferred there because of their superior quality. This is a fact which no tariff discrimination that the people of Canada would tolerate will overcome. We shall have closer trade rehtlons with our northern neighbor Just as soon as it is willing to make such conces sions as will not Involve on undue sac rifice on the part of our agricultural in terests. The present demand of the Canadians does not .contemplate this and therefore It is not acceptable to this country. R BTDRANTH AND FIRS RISK. Some statistical tables, complied re cently by the Syracuse Journal with reference to the relation between fire hydrants and fire risk (ln our principal cities are of interest not only because of their general import, but because of the relative position they accord to Omaha as compared with other largo population centers. The number of hydrants for each mile of water uiuln in tthe cities mentioned is given as follows: Syracuse 18.00 Onmlm 8.90 Buffalo 8.80 Indianapolis 8.fc Newark 8.30 Philadelphia 8.90 San Francisco... 7.f Milwaukee 7.40 Columbus 7.30 Albany 6.40 Providence S.70 Denver 6. CO Ietrolt 6.10 Louisville 4.00 Hal U more 8.00 New Orleans ...13.19 New York 13. 9.1 Allegheny 12.40 Minneapolis 12. On Cleveland 11.40 Brooklyn 10.80 Rochester 10.50 Chicago 10.20 Boston 10.10 St. Louis 10.00 Kansas City 9.501 St. Paul ft. an Jersey City 9. so The number of hydrants per mile, of course, does not give a full view of the service rendered, so the figures have been arranged also to show the ratio of tire hydrants to population In the fol lowing table, covering twenty-six cities with an aggregate of 0,00tf,000 inhabi tants and a total of 03.015 fire hydrants, averaging 10.3 to each 1,000 Inhabitants: Syracuse 23.80 Rochester 18.80 Indianapolis Omaha St. Louis ... Milwaukee .. Newark ..12.10 ..11.20 ..10.50 ..10.30 .. 9.30 .. 9.00 Cleveland 18.10 Boston ..16.40 ..16.20 ..1S.0O ..15.80 ..14.! ..13.40 Minneapolis St. Paul Buffalo Philadelphia San Francisco... 8.00 Albany 8.00 New York 6.40 Brooklyn 6.80 New Orleans .... 4.90 Louisville 4.60 Baltimore 8.60 Chicago Allegheny ... Jersey City . Kansas City. Provldenoa . . .12.801 .12.60 .12.60 Detroit 13.10 While bofh of these tables place Syra cuse at the head and Baltimore at the foot. It is gratifying to note that Omaha is in each a little better than the aver age. Omaha has nearly nine fire hy drants to every mile of main and a little over eleven for every 1,000 of Its popu lation. The distribution of fire hydrants is, of course, but an element in the fire risk. It is to be classed among the re pressive rather than among the prevent ive measures and the efficiency depends upon the effective use by the fire de portments. It may be taken for granted. however, that In all these large cities the pressure is approximately the same and the water supply adequate to all the needs, so that the hydrant service has about the same potentiality over the fire risk. Omaha's equipment for fire fighting Is certainly better than the aver age and. we ought to have credit for it from ' the underwriters In the' rating given for fire policies. The World-Herald takes special de light in reiterating the statement that Robert E. Lee Herdman Is Just about to conclude his services in the best pay ing office In the state. We wish that were true, for . Mr. Herdman seems to be hanging on with a grip hard to shake loose. As for the World-Herald, however, Its repentance and penitence are overdue. If we remember rlglitly, the principal object of the strenuous campaign it waged last year for the retention of the outgoing democratic su premo Judge was admitted to be for the purpose of keeping this same said Herdman coupled up with the best pay ing office In the state. Assurance la had from members of the. State Board of Educational Lands and Funds that the proposed Douglas county funding bonds can find a mar ket with the school fund at Zy per cent Interest, which is JuBt half what the outstanding warrants are now drawing. that It is proposed to fund. On $200. 000 of bonds a saving of $7,000 a year can be effected without the aid or con sent of any middlemen a saving worth having. "Horn. Der Governor." Boston Transcript. "Hoch!" is an exclamation generally made when looking over the top of a glass. Therefore, It seems to be rather a misfit as the name of a candidate for governor of a prohibitory state. Cosstlns the Utah Balls. Chicago Chronicle. The latest bombardment of Port Arthur was so deliberate that the recipients of the favor were able to count the shells. There were 154 of them. If the Japs want to im itate the Americans they will have to close In a little. Revlatloa of Race Trait a. Philadelphia Ledger. . Tha Russians in Wllkesbarre rush to got naturalised for fear they may he called on to fight for their country; the Japanese servant in this country will sell the clothes on his back to enable him to get on his own fighting line. What a revelation of Russia! Owaerahlp of Salt Lake. Llae. , Baa Francisco Chronicle. It has long been suspected by the know ing ones that Senator Clark's Salt Lake railroad would ultimately come out as a I'nlon Pacific extension. Recent develop ments prove this to be true, according to a Los Angeles dispatch. The latter says all orders for equipment of the Salt Lake road now come direct from the office of the Oregon Short Line, which ts Union Pacific property. The main importance attached to this development Is that Hart-man, as president of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific companies, has abso lute control of the railroad terminal facili ties) at Sao. Pedro, the Terminal railway controlling the south side of the harbor, being a part of the Salt Lake railway system, and the Los Angeles and San Pedro railroad, which occupies tha north side, Is a branch of the Southern Pacific com pany's lines. It looks, therefore, as If this combination had secured as much of s monopoly of the ' new harbor which the government is making at Ban Pedro at large public expense, as the late C. P. Huntington planned to obtain through the construction of a government breakwater at Santa Moolesa THB LOCOMOTIVE'S CTCMTK Jl ART. Traasltloa from the FlaTwIee e( the Do's to the Morals of Today. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Colncldintly with the centenary of the advent of the first locomotive comes the report of the building of by far the largest of those machines which the world has yet seen. Of course, the original locomotive was employed In Kngland. That country made experiments In this field earlier than did the United States. Kngland had rail roads before this country saw any, but there, ns well ns here, the roads were op erated by horses for several years before the steam motor came Into use. None of the countries of continental Europe had railroads until long after their Inception in the British islands. The weight of a locomotive of three quarters of a century or a century ago ranged from one to ten tons. The big loco motives Just referred to, which are being built In Philadelphia for the Atchison, To pe ka & Santa Fe railway, weigh 480,000 pounds, or 210 tons, 280,000 pounds repre son ting the engine and 200,000 pounds the tender. Fifteen tons, at a speed of five miles nn hour. Is given as the capacity of the ftrat locomotive In England, and com paratively little advance was made In the next doscu years after its appearance. Peter Cooper's one-ton Tom Thumb, which was put on the Baltimore St Ohio road In 1830, could carry only a little more than this, but It could make slightly better speed. Each of the locomotives which are being built for the Atchison road will be able to draw 6,000 tons of dead weight on a level grade at the rate of twenty-five miles an hour. When the Honesdale ft Carbondale rail way, back In 1837, sent to England for a locomotive to use on that line, nobody supposed that this country would, In the next three-quarters of a century, not only beat England, but all Europe, In the num ber of miles of Its railways, and would lead the world a long way In the site and the power of its locomotives and the num ber which are being constructed In its fac tories. Tiie locomotive which the Hones dale ft Carbondale road Imported from England at that time, the "Stourbridge Lion," weighed six tons, and was found to be too heavy for the wooden rails with the strips of Iron nailed on them, and there fore could not be used to any material ex tent. BBATISQ THE CENSOR. Ho Is the Bane of the War Corre spondent's Life. Harold Anderson In the Bookman. The ctnsorshlp is the bane of the corre spondent's life. The censor Is usually se lected from among the officers of the army, and he knows nothing of newspaper work. Censors Invariably mess things, except when they ask correspondents to help them out, as some do. They violate all the rules of telegraph companies and newspapers, whose cardinal principle Is that matter must be transmitted in the order of Its filing. Censors have an entertaining habit of sending short messages at once, because they are quickly read, and holding out long ones to be read when there la nothing else to occupy their time. The censor who does this Is not popular. Every correspondent feels It a duty to beat him whenever he can. In Key West once Admiral Sampson ordered that no news be sent of his depar ture for San Juan de Porto Rico. The cen sor then on duty wiis unpopular. One cor respondent sent thTs Innocent-looking mes sage to his managing editor: "Tell father I've gone Porto Rico. . Ship camera to 8an Juan." Ttfe correspond, thought' his managing editor would know that he would not go to Porto Rico without the fleet and would read that news ifiio this "personal" mes sage. The censor never saw the point of that message and let It go through. Un fortunately for the correspondent, the man aging editor did not see Its point, either, and neglected to Interpret It Into a news story a beat. When the Porto Rico trip was over this telegram was delivered to the returning correspondent: "Father not In directory. Wtra hlra direct." . f PERSONAL NOTES. Dr. W. O. Anderson, director of the Tale gymnasium, has Invented a muscle bed which Is attracting considerable at tention among athletes. , According to government reports the farmers of the country have 132,000,000 bush els of wheat on their hands. This does not seem to warrant a smaller loaf. The sufferings of Pittsburg from her water famine are greatly mitigated, how ever, by the knowledge that Kentucky has 20,000,000 gallons of the best In bond and ready for shipment. And while the Russians are merely talk ing of sending A ma ions to the front, be It recorded that General Ma at the head of 20,000 well trained Chinese troops Is en camped on the Manchurlan frontier. No body seems to have located General Pa's whereabouts at all. Almost any price could be obtained for an up-to-date photograph of Miss Helen Gould or of John D. Rockefeller. It Is next to Impossible to secure an Interview from either of them. It Is declared that Mr. Rockefeller has not been Interviewed, pho tographed or snapshotted In the last five years. Prof. Agassis of Harvard has been elected a foreign member of the French Academy of Sciences, to take the place made vacant by the death of Sir George Gabriel Stokes. This Is considered a dis tinct honor, since there have been only four Americans honored with a similar membership. . Renewed efforts are being made to raise money to complete the fund for the erec tion of a monument upon the grave of Rear Admiral James J, Jouett, United States navy, at Arlington cemetery. A commit tee consisting of Rear Admirals Benham, Clark, Chester and Watson, and others, has the matter In charge. If all promises are fulfilled, the United States w(ll have royal visitors galore next summer. So far these have announced their Intention to visit the land of the free: King Leopold of Belgium. King Menelek of Abyssinia, the crown prince of Germany, the crown prince of Sweden and the crown prince of China. Senators conducting the Bmoot Inquiry have been amased and generally disgusted at the Immense attendance of women. At times the evldenoe presented has verged on the spicy, and It has been noticed that on such occasions the fair visitors were particularly attentive. In one day at least half a hundred women were turned away for lack of room. William Nelson Crawford, head of the New Tork firm which had much to do with procuring ratification of the Panama canal treaty, is said to have received a fee of 12.000.000. His firm has been concerned In many cases Involving vast amounts of money and Mr. Cromwell's advice has been sought more than once by the United States Steel company. Arbor day In Los Angeles, Cat., Is this year to be marked by the setting out In a city park of trees In memory of General John C. Fremont and Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont, his wlf That to General Fremont will be a live oak, because It was under one of these native monarchs of the southern California soil that the treaty of peace was prepared which Oenernl Fremont and the Mexican commander signed 00 the .taking of Loe Angelas. ARMY GOSSIP I WASHINGTON. Oaurreat Create Gleaned from the Arsay and Nary Register. Colonel Enoch H. Crowder, Judge advo cate snd member of the general staff of the army, will be made brigadier general In July on the retirement of Brigadier Gen eral Peter C. Halns, who will go on the retired list under operation of the law at that time. It was the Intention of the president to appoint Colonel Crowder to a brigadier generalcy In January last on the occasion of the retirement of Lieu tenant General Toung and the consequent promotions. At that time the place was filled by General William 8. McCaskey, and the president assured the friends of Colonel Crowder that on the occasion of the next vacancy Colonel Crowder would be ad vanced. That officer has had absolutely nothing to do with the effort made In his behalf. The Initial step was taken by the officers with whom he has served at home and abroad and whatever has been done since that . time has also been . by others. Colonel Crowder Is now on his way to Toklo, where he will assume the duty of senior military attache with the Japanese armies. It Is not believed that Colonel Crowder,' If promoted, will be de tached from this duty, to which he was very anxious to be assigned. Secretary Taft Is not In favor of that form of promotion In the military service which Is accomplished by legislation. For this reason he Is likely to be found against the provision of advancement of retired officers of civil war service. The depart ment, however, has expressly abstained from commitlng Itself one way or the other on the proposition, and if there Is a chance of the enactment of legislation of that character, either as a separate bill or as a rider on the army appropriation bllL nothing will come from the depart ments to jeopardize Its prospects. During the week the adjutant general's office has furnished, the house and senate military committees with full lists of retired offi cers who will be affected by pending legis lation now Incorporated In the army bill. The list Is of those officers below the grade of brigadier general who had civil war service prior to April 9, 186S, ex clusive of those who received an advance of grade on or since retirement and of those retired under special act of con gress. The list embraces 107 colonels, 62 lieutenant colonels, 78 majors, 87, captains, mounted; 97 captains, not mounted: IS chap lains, 10 first lieutenants, mounted: 81 first lieutenants, not mounted, snd 6 second lieutenants. 1 Infantry officers on duty In Washington who have been making an effort to estab lish an Infantry association have formed preliminary organisation. A meeting was held on Wednesday night when Gen eral J. C. Bates was elected president. Lieutenant Colonel James S. Pettit was elected vice president and Captain Ben jamin Alvord was elected secretary and treasurer. The executive council will con sist of General Bates, Colonel Pettit, Cap tain Alvord and Major John S. Mallory, Twelfth Infantry; Major William P. Evans, on duty In the adjutant general's office; Captain H. C. Hale, Twentieth Infantry; Captain C. H. Mulr, Second lfifantry: Cap tain D. E. Nolan. Thirtieth Infantry, and Captain Frank Mclntyre, Nineteenth In fantry. Seven hundred infantry officers have signified their Intention of becoming members of the association and It Is ex pected that a large number of ' officers of the arm now on duty In the Philippines will be heard from to the same effect. The organization Is tn a most promising state. Later on It will be decided whether the periodical publication of the organiza tion shall be quarterly or bi-monthly. There was some talk of sending out useful Information such as that obtainable from the military Information division of the general staff, in occasional circulars or pamphlets, but it appears to be the opinion of the members of the association that Its Interest would best be served and the de mands for literature fully met by the pub lication of a quarterly, for which an editor will be shortly selected. A curious state of affairs exists at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., In regard to Paul B. MacLane, formerly a second lieutenant of the Thirteenth cavalry, dismissed by sen tence of court martial and sentenced to a year's confinement In the penitentiary on the charge of embezzlement In the Philip pines. Through some error In the War de partment the secretary of war designated the penitentiary at Leavenworth as the plaoe of confinement and MacLane was ac cordingly transferred to that Institution. It has been discovered that under the law of 1896 the period of Imprisonment of those sent to Leavenworth penitentiary must be more than one year. Everything would have been according to law had MacLane's sentence been for one day more than one year, but as It was MacLane Is now In the position of being Ineligible as an Inmate of the Leavenworth penitentiary. For the time being he has been transferred to the post guard house at Fort Leavenworth, where he will be required to carry out that part of the sentence which Imposes hard labor during his confinement. This will add somewhat to the humiliation of his punish ment, since under those circumstances a part of his work may be that of a laborer about the poet, where he will come In con tact with the officers and their families with whom not long ago he might have as sociated on terms of equality. It Is pos sible that MacLane will be transferred to the prison at Alcatras Island, In San Fran olsco bay. The quartermaster general of the army has before him plans for an army gymnasium. These contemplate a type edifice, which shall answer the purposes at posts where an Independent gymnasium Is required without the additional post exchange. The building will have a basement, where will be located the shooting gallery, bowling alleys, dressing room, baths, toilet rooms and heating apparatus. The main floor will contain the gymnasium, suitably equipped with modern athletic appliances. The gym nasium floor will be 72x40 feet and there will be a gallery at one end. On eaoh side of the main entrance will be office rooms and In the center an entrance hall. The building Itself will be 0x4S feet. The quartermaster general of the army has under consideration a new rubber boot for use by troops tn the field. It is made with a canvas covering on the outside of the leg of the boot as a protection against tearing by brambles and underbrush gen erally. The Inside of the boot Is of rubber cloth, which will enable the washing of the boot on the Inside. The boot has what Is called a spading sole. Pletorlal Haxmoav. , Indianapolis News. . Democracy has ah embarrassing w.aJth of artchltects of harmony, and that Is Its trouble. Once there was an Illiterate railroad construction foreman who was directed to build a small bridge swept away by floods, and men were sent with hlra to make plans and specifications for the structure that was to meet the emer gency. The foreman built the bridge and so reported, adding that "the picture ain't d rawed yet." He must have been a republican. Let the Troth Bo Kaowa. Washington Post. President Smith should be recalled as a witness tn the Bmoot case If for no other reason than to tell a waiting public how he gets akmg with bis motbera-ia-Uw. The healthy liver secretes about three pints of bile each day. How much does yours secrete ? One pint. Two pints, perhaps. Then A rJ you suffer from indigestion, bil iousness, headache, constipation. To secrete the three pints, take one of Ayer's Pills each night. sua. hf t. O. Arer ATTTB'S RATO VTftOBfl k fc.i. ftl&B't oAa&aPsBllJ s-tot the Moos. BREAK IP THE BUSINESS. EntanclloK Alliance Which Congress men Should Avoid. Chicago Tribune. If a postmaster believes that the Increased business of his office Justifies a larger al lowance for clerk hire, rent or supplies, it Is legitimate for him to call the attention of his official superiors to the matter. The Postotfice department has the data regard ing the increase in business. If doubtful as to whether it is genuine and likely to continue It has special agents, one of whom It can send to Investigate. The entire mat ter Is one between the postmaster and the department. No third party, though he be senator or representative, Is called on to Intermeddle. If congressmen had kept out of matters which do not concern them and had not acted as lobbyists for postmasters who were in a hurry to get Increases to which they were not always entitled, there would have been no Bristow report and no con gressional hysteria. When representatives say that their duty to their constituents requires them to Importune bureau chiefs for extra allowances for postmasters they say what Is not true. It Is no more their duty -to do it than it is of a Chicago alder man to get pardons for constituents who have been given lodgings In the bridewell or who wish to be bulled out of a police station. The congressman does not lobby for the postmaster In order that constituents may have better postal facilities, but to Induce the postmaster to stick by him and work for him. The head of a bureau tells the congressman that as a favor to him the matter will be attended to at once, and thus the bureau chief gains an Influential friend.' Everybody concerned In the busi ness Is looking after his own personal In terests. Nobody gives a, thought to the '"constltuehts." The poatmaater who Invokes congres sional influence In matters which lie ex clusively between him and the department should be dismissed. Congressmen should have enough self-respect to keep them from haunting the executive departments on such petty errands and Incurring the risk of getting mixed up with men like Machen and Beavers. They ought to know that when they ask for favors they are ex pected to reciprocate, and that they cannot always honorably do so. There should be no entangling alliances between the legislative and executive de partments. A PURCHASABLE STATE. Rhode Island Democrats Cheerfally Deliver tho Goods." Chicago Chronicle (dem.). At the meeting of the Rhode Uland dem ocrats srtate convention held recently to elect delegates to the national convention eight delegates were elected and six of them were the avowed supporters of the same aspirant to the presidential nomina tion. The other two, belonging to the op position, were allowed places on the dele gation ostensibly as an act of magnanimity on the part of the majority, but really, perhaps, to avert suspicion. The favorite candidate of the six for the presidency. It Is sufficient to say, is a man of great wealth, with a long pay roll, who Is commonly known a "the pay roll can didate," who Is freely accused all over the country, of trying to buy the nomination and the fiber of whose moral nature Is ac curately Illustrated by his chief claim to presidential honors. This claim Is that although he was at heart a believer In the gold standard and In the dishonesty and ruinous tendency of the free coinage of silver, yet his psrty loyalty was so supreme that he devoted all three of his newspapers to the support of William J. Bryan. In view of this candidate's reputation for the use of mercenary methods he should certainly "view with alarm" this gushing and practically unanimous sup port of the Rhode Island democracy. For there Is a fateful coincidence be.tween the mercenary reputation of the candidate and the venal record of the Rhode Island politicians. If there Is a locality In this country which the "omnia venalla" of Cicero would fit It Is Rhode Island. The action of the convention, therefore. Is a reproach both to Itself and to Its candidate. There are some opportunities to use money In political campaigns which are conceded to be legitimate as well ss ad vantageous, and this Rhode Island con vention seems to have offered such sn op portunity. It would have been perfectly proper for a candidate with an established reputation for buying his way to fame to bribe this convention to turn him down. He could then have pointed triumphantly to Its delegation and said: "If I had been buying delegates I would certainly have bought UP that crowd, for everybody knows they were for sale." Civility is the coin that passes current in all countries." SHERIDAN COAL is always delivered by civil and polite teamsters. Nut, $6.00 splendid for cooking. Lump. $6.50 for grates, furnaces and heaters. Victor White Coal Co. 1605 FARNAM. TEL. 127. 9 iier s M (be SO 1 C... UMU, 1 or ATWVB ChTTBBT ROTOtAtV-ror tHIH. ATSB'S A0CB COB-or saalaria aas ago. SMILING REMARKS. "They say they'll use 40,000 men on the Panama canal." "That means 80,000." "Eh? What will the other 40,000 do?" "Keep off the skeeters." Cleveland Plain Dealer. She Do you think you would live longer If you were married, Mr. Batchelor? He I don't know. But I am sure It would seem longer. Philadelphia Ledger. The only time when a man thinks It !s a privilege to be allowed to go shopping with a young woman and carry her bun dles for her Is before he Is married to her. Somervllle Journal. Jenkins What do you think of this "New Thought" theory? Thompson It is excellent occupation for people who wouldn't be doing anything else. Indianapolis Journal. "What kind of oysters da you call these?" demanded the professor. "New Tork counts, sir," replied the waiter. "I know that's whnt I ordered," rejoined the professor, eyeing them doubtfully, "but these can't possibly be anything more than viscounts." Chicago Tribune. Miss Hoamley He seamed to think he knew me. I noticed him studying ray face. Miss Sharpe Yes. I noticed that, too. 1 Miss Hoamley He asked you If I was born down his way, didn't he? Miss Sharpe Not exactly. He asked If you "were born that way." Philadelphia Catholic Standard. The woman was doing her shopping. The counter Jumper handed her a package and she slowly turned away. "Do I need anything else?" she absent mindedly asked. "You nave Just bought some lawn," ven tured the clerk. "Don't you think you will need some hose?" Princeton Tiger. "Is he a war expert?" "Well, he's one of the 1R.OOQ.000 people who know Just how the war In the far east should be conducted." Chicago Post. "Well, sir," said the author, enthusi astically, "my book Is selling like hot cakes!" "Hot rakes, eh?" remarked the critic. "I can understand that. I heard a fellow say today that your book gave him men tal dyspepsia." Philadelphia Press. "Don't you think It would be a good tde.t for this government to conduct more pub lic entemrlses?" "I don't know," answered Senator Sorg hum, "grand Juries are getting so actlva and voters so Inquisitive that before long the chances for graft will be Just as good with a big private enterprise as with the government." Washington Star. ROLL CALL IN CORK A. Milwaukee Sentinel. 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