THE OMAHA' DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1904.
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Notary Public.
Judge Parker and the southern de
mocracy must have enfen n phllopraa,
and each, waiting for tUo other to speak
first.
Turkey Is again slaughtering the Ar
menians. Wars may come and wars
muy go, but the Sick Man of Europe
must hare bis annual tribute.
Since the president has decided to
opeu tbe Rosebud reservation In Au
gUHt, Gregory county Is looking forward
with pleasure to tbe dog days.
Tbe Russians are getting ready to lay
their trouble to tbe rainy season. The
last blameworthy weather was tbe frost,
but t the Japs have warmed things, up
since then. " '
Tbe first Japanese warship to be lost
In the present war came to Us end
through a Russian mine at Dalny. Rus
sian mines seem to be more effective
than Russian admirals.
Douglas county democrats will have
their turn at their primaries a week
from nest Wednesday, and republicans
can then enjoy themselves by watching
the 'democratic fur fly.
' I. -J" 1.
When John N. Baldwin makes his nest
plea before the supreme court he should
accompany bis urgtiuieut . with the
presentation of an unabridged dictionary
to each Judge on the bench.
Illinois republicans are suggesting
Congressman Ilitt for second place on
the ticket with President Roosevelt. As
therr candidate Is In his seventy-first
year. It is a case for lightning to hit
now or never. ,
For all of Canada's defeat In tbe
Alaskan boundary dispute. Its repre
sentatives on tbe boundary survey are
the first In the field, but there Is no
reason to believe their intention Is to
remove any of the landmarks.-
.," i ,.' i -t
Notwithstanding the report that Mrs,
Eddy has taken up the cudgels against
those secret societies 1 which do not ad
mit m?n and women equally to mem
bership, It Is not hnMry likely that the
lodges will buy sidesaddles for their
goats.
. Great Britain bad announced an in
tention to send ho warship to New
Cbwang, but since the United States
has sent a ship within easy sailing dis
tance of that port we may esp'ect to
see the union Jack waving near at al
most any time.
Governor Mkkey finds that his assess
ment Is materially raised by tho opera
tion of the new revenue law. . This
ought to mako him more appreciative
of the demand thnt the railroad assess
went be also raised to correspond with
the true selling value.
The local popocratlc organ is amusing
Itself by making a slate for tbe repub
lican state convention. This is harm
less amusement, especially since there
are, no contests over the larger part of
the places and tbe slatemaker cannot
possibly slip up except at two or three
points.
Rome bears the rumble of tbe coming
Russian revolution, in which it is al
leged tbe people will force the granting
of a constitutional form of government
as tbe price of victory In the war with
Japan. If this be accomplished the war
will not be without Its victory for Rus
sia, no matter which side wins.
Tbe apportionment of state school
money for the present semi-annual pe
riod esctMtds all previous records. When
the fusloulsts were lu ofUoe and tbe
school apportionment showed an in
crease there wus a promiscuous shower
of bouquets in the fusion press. Since,
however, the management of the school
fund is now in the hands of tbe repub
lic us these organs will forget to peep,
RtMlTg TBM CJHPdlOH.
Mr. Chamberlain has renewed his
campaign for a reform In British fiscal
policy and it Is to be expected will push
It vigorously. In his speech at Blr
mlngham Thursday he took a somewhat
opflmlstle view of tbe situation, assert
Ing his belief that if the question of
fiscal reform should be at once sub
mitted to a popular vote It would be
favored by a large majority of the peo
ple. It may well be doubted If Mr.
Chamberlain was quite sincere in mak
ing this statement, for nothing has oc
curred to give warrant for It since his
absence from England, If Indeed the
policy he advocate hits not lost ground.
It is true, ss he caustically declared,
that the question cannot be disposed of
by "waving old rags or by the clattering
of wornout cans," and it is a fact that
those who oppose his policy have not
made the most of their opportunity, yet
there Is no evidence that the Chamber
lain program, the cardlnnl feature of
which Is retaliation, has recently made
any progress In popular acceptance. On
tbe contrary, there is reason to believe
that It Is not as strong now as when Its
champion left England to seek restora
tion to health and he may find it a not
altogether easy task to revive public in
terest in the question, or at any rate
to restore it to tbe point reached be
fore he halted his campaign. Undoubt
edly there are a great many Englishmen
who are favorable to the policy of re
taliation, hut it Is most Improbable that
a majority of them are disposed to place
the country in such a position, the
necessary effect of which would be to
Involve It in conflicts that might prove j
exceedingly damaging to Its commercial
interests. Tbe Chamberlain policy
might prove beneficial to the British
colonies, though this is by no means
certain, but It is not apparent that It
would be of any advantage to tbe peo
ple of the United Kingdom nndt this Is
the view that very many of tbeui take
of it
THK XTKKL MOVSTRY.
Reports regarding the present condi
tion of the steel Industry are not en
couraging as to the immedlute future of
this great department of the nation's
business, and tbe most plausible expla
nation seems to be found in tbe combi
nations by which prices are prevented
from responding to the law of supply
and demand and by which in conse
quence the relation between supply and
demand Is violently dislocated. The
high prices for steel which have pre
vailed for several years, under combina
tion control of the industry, have had
the ' natural result of restricting con
sumption and not until prices are ma
terially reduced Is there likely to be a
revival of demand.
As the New York Journal of Com
merce points out, the demand can be
encouraged Into pew life and activity
only by lowering prices and diminishing
cost That remedy being refused, the
alternative 'is inevitable of curtailing
production, with idleness and loss for
both capital and labor In the industry
itself and In other industries dependent
upon it. There doea not seem to be any
good reason for maintaining prices, as
is being done, since such a reduction as
would revive tbe demand would still
leave a fair profit to the manufacturers,
while manifestly it would be wiser to
keep tbe iudustry In active operation
than to curtail production and thereby
subject both capital and labor to idle
ness and loss. The combination policy
appears to be to keep prices steady, but
this is practicable without holding them
at a point which shuts off tbe demand
and tends to render tbe Industry un
profitable. Evidently the men who
largely control this great Interest will
sooner or later be compelled to change
their policy and bring it Into harmony
with the law of supply and demand.
TUB XkXT HOVSK.
The house of representatives to be
elected post November will probably be
republican, but in order that it shall
be republicans everywhere must stand
faithfully by the party candidates. Rep
resentative Babcock of Wisconsin, chair
man of the republican congressional
committee, who from ' long experience
In that position is thoroughly familiar
with the situation, la confident that the
house of the Fifty-ninth congress will
have a republican majority, bis reliance
being placed upon tbe country districts.
In a late interview he said that the
conditions now are very similar to those
of two years ago. The people in the
rural sections are prosperous and con
tented and want the present conditions
to continue. lie therefore was of tbe
opinion that the country districts will
not change from their republican alle
giance. 'Two years ago the democrats won
twenty city districts awsy from us,"
said Mr. Babcock. "This year I be
lieve we shall get some of tbem back
again. When tbe present house was
elected tbe republicans had thirty ma
jority. That figure is without referenco
to what the majority may be now, A
loss of fifteen votes from what we had
then would abolish our majority. But
If the democrats, by any chance, elect
their candidates In fifteen of the dis
tricts that are now republican, they
will also lose as many as ten of the
districts which they now hold and the
control of the house would still be with
the republicans." It Is pointed out that
presidential years are usually favorable
to the election of republican candidates
for the lower house of congress. Thus,
In 187ft, the republicans gained 35 mem
bers. In 1880 they gained 17 members,
in 1883 13 members, In 181)2 38 mem
bers and In loot) 13 members. Doubt
less they would have made a gain In
13 but for tbe great gain of 120 mem
bers two years before aud even as it
wss they secured a clear majority of
40 over the democrats and populists
combined.
The election of a republican bouse of
representatives Is not less Important
thaoVhe election at a republican presl-
dent. There ts every reason to believe
that President Roosevelt will succeed
himself, bis nomination being absolutely
assured, probably by acclamation.
Without a house, of representatives in
political accord with the administration
the latter, for at least a period of two
years, could carry out no republican
policies not already provided for and It
Is easy to understand that this might
prove somewhat embarrassing. If not a
positive drawback to the country. A
democratic house would-be simply an
obstruction, incnpable of accomplishing
anything beyond blocking legislation
deemed necessary by republicans, with
possible effects Injurious to the inter
ests and welfare of the nation.
Therefore republicans everywhere
should be alive to the duty of earnest
and harmonious action for the election
of the congressional candidates of tho
party, knowing that democratic control
of the house would mean only obstruc
tlon to the progress of republican poll
cles.
rVBLIV 8QHWL COMPARISONS.
A writer in the Lincoln Journal draws
some comparisons between tbe public
schools at Lincoln and at Omaha not at
all to the discredit of tbe Omaha schools,
While It is admitted thnt the schools of
Lincoln are behind those of Omaha In
point of effective Instruction it is, how
ever, claimed for Lincoln that It has ad
vantages which should enable it to
achieve superiority. The claim is made.
for example, that the people of Lincoln
show a greater degree of interest In the
welfare of the schools than the people of
Omaha. The claim is made that tbe
method of selecting teachers In Lincoln,
where tbe superintendent Is not ham
pered In the least In giving positions to
the best teachers wherever he finds
IhemNias advantages over tbe selection
of teachers In Omaha, where applicants
of whatever training and experience
have to take a formal and difficult ex
amination and where a committee of the
board has more to do in making up the
list than the superintendent. The clnlm
Is further made that the small Board of
Education iu Lincoln dispatches busi
ness In a more satisfactory manner than
the large board in Omaha. As an ex
planation of Omaha's handicap over Lin
coln in public school service the assertion
Is ventured that while tbe progress of
the Lincoln schools has been very much
retarded during tbe last ten or twelve
years by the frequent changes in the
superlntendency the Omaha schools have
profited by being under the manage
ment of one strong superintendent dur
ing the same period and therefore "It Is
no wonder educators have been ranking
the Omaha schools ibove those of Lin
coln." tt Is gratifying to know that Lincoln
concedes to Omnba & higher rank for Its
public school system, but Omaha's pub
lic schools ought to be far In advance of
Lincoln public schools for many reasons.
Omaha devotes proportionately a far
greater amount of money to the support
of Its public oehqols, and for the money
It expends ought to have the very best
teaching and supervising talent to be
had, Termanency of tenure is no doubt
a valuable asset in school work not only
in tbe superintendent's office, but in the
school room as well, but It all depends
upon the character and equipment of
the person enjoying tbe permanent ten
ure. The progress made by Omaha
schools has been achieved not so much
through Its late superintendent as In
spite of him, and is In fact due to the
efficiency and conscientious work of the
corps of teachers and principals, who
have been attending to business while
the superintendent was manipulating
politics, building auditoriums, managing
the Commercial club and supervising
secret society Initiations. The large
board of education Instead of Impeding
the late superintendent seems to have
been easily controlled by him. Had we
had all of this time a school superintend
ent who was really an educator by train
ing and experience Omaha's school sys
tem would undoubtedly have shown
much more marked improvement. If the
new superintendent nukes good on all
that has been promised for him he can,
with the material be has to work on
after the dead wood is chopped out, set
a pace with which tbe schools in no
other western city can catch up.
, The "antls" are trying to explain why
tbey oppose a direct primary now
when it is Just what they were clam
oring for so loudly last fall. Their pre
tense Is that a direct primary cannot
reflect the real wish of the party be
cause some democrats may be regis
tered as republicans. There are cer
tainly no more democrats registered as
republicans now than there were last
fall, when the primary was held under
the direction of the "antis" and their
machine. Neither would it make any
difference, so far as the vote is con
cerned, whether the primary be direct
or indirect inasmuch as tbe same people
would be entitled to cast their ballots
one way or the other. Inasmuch as
most of the antls voted against the
regularly nominated candidates at the
last city election, tbey themselves might
well be classed as democrats registered
as republicans.
Those numerous Civic Federation
manifestoes might be taken djuc'j more
serlouslv if they were not issued so
palpaf , for political effect to bolster
up the fortunes of a faction of ple
bltlng desperadoes anxious only to cap
ture the republican machinery In order
to get at the public crib. In fact, tbe
suspicion is abroad that the chief pur
pose of the federation is political and
factional rather than nonpartisan and
disinterested.
The return of Congressman Hitchcock
from Washington seems to have thrown
a mantle of a different bue over his
paper, which In bis absence displayed
derided Hearst leanings, whereas now
it Is manifesting a disposition to get
one foot on the Tarker side. It will
be In the band wagon at all events
when the parade starts, no matter who
sits with the driver.
A Common Pallia.
Chicago Record-Herald.
People who spend the most time In trying
to devise plans for dividing up the wealth
of the world generally have very little of
It to divide.
Lightening tho First Toneh,
Chlnago Post.
The wealthy Nebraska woman who was
fined HO for hiring boys to shoot song birds
that had the temerity to light on her lawn
did not get one-tenth of what she de
served.
Sympathy Suffers a Chill.
Chicago Record-Herald.
A fear that Japanese success against
Russia might disturb the balance of power
In Asia Is spreading In England. Mr. Bull's
sympathy may have a sudden chill If
he finds that he Is likely to lose In
pounds, shillings and pence through the
achievements of his brown-skinned ally.
Financier Hooter Hock.
St. Louis Republic.
When you read that Ernest Terah Hooley
la landed behind the bars you (nay suppose
that disturbing the peace, for Instance, Is
the charge, since the fellow sounds as If
h might be a cousin to that rowdy,
Terence Mulvaney. But you are wrong
the gentleman with the Klpllngesque name
Is in for something much more dignified
and polite. He Is the hero of a colossal
bankruptcy which shook the London finan
cial world, he Is now chorged with "con
spiracy to defraud" a lot of financiers, and
he had no trouble at all giving a 140,000
bond. Mr. Hooley, indeed. Is very much
of a gentleman. '
Greatness on a Shield.
New York Tribune.
Panama, the new republic, has a coat-of-
arms showing a comprehensive design. It
consists of a shield, surmounted by an
engle, in whose beak Is the ribbon upon
which la written the motto of the state.
"Paa, Llbcrtad, Union, Progreso" (peace.
liberty, union, progress). Below, on the
upper part of the shield, side by side, are
the Implements of war and of peaceful
occupations. Below this, occupying the
central place, Is a land and water view,
the site of the canal; the fruits of the
harvest and a rushing train on a track fill
up the point of the shield. Flags drape it
on either side and stars surmount the
eagle.
A FEATIRH OF THE FAIR.
Agrlcnltore and Horticulture Doral-
' nate tho Exhibit.
Chicago Chronicle.
The opening of the St. Louis fair finds
all tbe buildings and exhibits In a much
more advanced stnte of completion than
was seen at any previous exposition in this
country or In Europe.
The most striking feature, which can
hardly tall to Impress the visitor who has
followed the growth of previous exposi
tions. Is the department of agriculture and
horticulture, which covers nearly seventy
acres. The agriculture building Is the
largest on the grounds, covering nearly
seventeen acrca, and Is by far the largest
exposition building aver erected and de
voted to the exhibit of a particular indus
try.. It has more exhibits than any other
department at the fair; It was the most
complete of any department on the opening
day, and It covers more miles of booths.
To most visitors it will be the marvel of
the exposition, not only In Its colossal
architecture, but In the educational scope
and completeness of Its exhibits. The ag
riculture and horticulture exhibits alone
constitute a great exposition In themselves,
vast enough and Instructive enough to oc
cupy the careful attention of .the average
visitor for days.
They represent tha crowning achievement
of Frederlo W. Taylor's long experience
In the Installation of exhibits if this char.
aoter at previous expositions. ,
POLITICAL DBIFT,
Senator Fairbanks Is raid to be worth
$3,000,000.
Opponents of Judge Parker deny his con
servatism. They say he Is red-headed all
the time.
Eugene Debs Is the first man of the
season to have a presidential nomination
thrust upon htm.
Mayor Collins of Boston, who Is now
serving his second consecutive term, em
phatically declares that he does not desire
to be a candidate for a third.
New Jersey republicans talk of ssndlng
four millionaires ss delegates-at-large to
the national convention. Men of that rat
ing can greet Chicago hotel rates with a
smile.
It Is nip and tuck between the stalwart
faction and Governor La Follette to control
the republican convention of Wisconsin.
The governor wants a third term and
seems to have the beat of the race by a
narrow margin.
Ex-Mayor Reed, a lonely pea In the politi
cal barrel of Missouri, has retired from the
race for tha democratla nomination for
governor. Mr. Reed was running against
Joseph Folk. At least he thought so until
the road roller passed.
The talk In Pensylvanla Is that Senator
Quay desires and plans to have his son,
Richard R. Quay, succeed him In the senate
of the United States, after tho faahlon set
when Don Cameron followed General Cam
eron in tho service at Washington.
John Brlsben Walker Imitated tha exam-
pit of his friend. William J. Bryan, and
hired a hall in order to relieve himself of
an overcharge of political feeling. He
predicted that If the democratic party
should nominate Judge Parker It would
suffer a defeat from whloh it would not
rsoover for a score of years.
The re-election of Mayor Edward 3. F6-
garty of South Bend, Ind., this time by aa
Increased majority over his opponent. Is
taken to mean that he la now a formidable
candidate for nomination for governor on
the democratla ticket. Normally the city
la republican by 1.600. but Mayor Fogarty
had a majority of over 800 tha other day.
His businesslike career as mayor, his grit,
courage and resourcefulness as a vote get
ter have drawn general attention In his
direction. Mr. Fogarty la about 46 years
old and by trade a bricklayer.
An Omaha democrat writes to the Chi
cago Chronicle under the nora de plume
"Oneida," drawing a parallel between the
coming national convention and that
which nominated Horatio Seymour In 1WS.
The writer says that Seymour declined to
be a candidate for the nomination In
168, just as Grover Cleveland does now,
and concludes: "Horatio Seymour made it
plain In 168 that no man Is great enough
either to forbid or decline a nomination for
president of the United States at the hands
of a national democratic convention."
Joseph W. Tolk. the St. Louis lawyer
who seeks nomination for governor on the
democratic ticket, la a campaigner of won
derful endurance. A St. Louis paper says
that tha circuit attorney up to laat week
had made 12S speeches averaging ninety
minutes long; had vUited forty counties;
had covered 1,000 square miles of territory;
had ridden 4.000 on the railways, and 300
miles in stages and carriages; had rested
an average of but seven hours a day. and
had addressed about 2(0,000 people. This
Is not tbe first exhibition of endurance Mr.
Folk haa made. When he ran for circuit
atttorney he visited every ward In St. Louis
and frequently spoke four times la an
evening.
GOSSIP ABOt'T THE) WAR.
Set tho World Talking.
The achievement of the Japanese navy
on the Yellow Sea and about Tort Arthur
have caused as much astonishment among
world powers as did the triumph ef the
"Cheeae-box" American monitor ever the
rebel Merrimao at Hampton Roada, some
forty-one years ago. In Great Uritisn,
particularly, tha greatest of sea powers
feels leas confident of Its supremacy than
before Admiral Togo started on his mls-lon
of destruction. This uneasiness Is voiced
by Henry Labouchere In London Truth.
He says: When I read the story of last
weeks battle off Port Arthur tho story
of the laying of the mines at night under
a hall of shells from the forts; of the
stratagem by which tha Russians were
lured out to their destruction, while the
main Japanese fleet lay In wait below tha
horizon, to be summoned at the right
moment by wireless telegraphy, and to fall
upon the Russians If their ships escaped
the mines placed In their track I can only
pray that If we are ever to fight for our
existence again on sea we may have men
with the brain and tha nerve to perform
such feats aa these. ' If we have, then the
enemy is welcome to as big a fleet of
Retvlzans, Petropaviovsks, and similar
marine monsters as any navy leaguer ever
saw approaching our shores In his worst
nightmare. If we have not, though we
have on paper a three-power navy or a
thirty-power navy, I shall feel Ilka Balbus
when he cried out that It was all up with
the republic. What Englishman, with the
fate of the Petropavlosk and the gallant
Admiral Makaroff before his eyes, can
believe today that salvation Ilea In huge
battleships that go to the bottom, like a
leaky kettle chucked Into a pond, before
a well-aimed torpedo or a Judiciously
planted mine? And remember . that the
most insidious of all the weapons against
these mamoths, the submarine, has not
come Into action yet In the present war.
If the modern battleship Is our first line of
defense, heaven help us! The question of
the moment for us Is what we are doing
at present to manufacture Togos.
A wrltter In the Boston Transcript, In
an elaborate description of the Russian
soldier, his faults, virtue, numbers snd
equipment, says that If the Russian army I
succeeds In the present war, It will be by
sheer inability to know when it is defeated.
The Russian foot soldier carry sixty-six I
pounds. He carries his necessities "com
forts he has none" on his back, and is to
a great extent Independent of the bajrgaga
train. He Is described as thick-set.
deep-chested, and enduring, looking Ilka
a farm laborer with a rifle Instead of a
spade. It Is recalled that on the march
to Peking, while even the Japanese soldiors
were falling by the wayside from the ef
fects of the extreme heat, not a single Rus-
lan fell out of Una. "Russian soldiers have
been known to march thirty miles without
rest and then go directly into battle."
The Russian troops represent many
nationalities,, but tho army discipline la
such that they are united Into a harmorili.ua
whole. The only branch of the tervioe
which does not lose Its identity la tho Cos
sack horsemen. From a declaration mads
in F. V. Greene's "Army Life In Russia,"
it appears that the Russian are slow In
"Initiative and self-reliance," and do not
show their soldierly quality until they have
passed through several battles. One of the
characteristics of Russian troops la abso-
lute obedience to orders; but when left to
themselves they are likely to get killed
"from sheer stupidity and waiting for an
order when every one is dead who haa tbe
right to give one." Greene says they may
become a helpleaa mass, but will not
retreat In panic. The Russian officers lark
the ability to decide quickly, and are prone
to error. "It Is said that tho Russians can
not engineer the passage of two lines of
baggage trains so that they shall not get
jammed, and In all matters of executive
detail they are far behind the clever Japs,"
We are In debt to Japan for at least
three notable, discoveries, two of which
have already aaved mapy European lives,
says the London Academy. The oldest of
these Is the discovery of Kltasato, a Japa
nese bacteriologist, of tho bacillus thnt
causes lockjaw, or tetanus, leading to the
production of an antitoxin serum which
Is now regularly used and la by far tha
most efficient remedy we posBP tor this
terrible disease,
A Japanese observer named Shiga has
recently discovered the bacillus which
causes a great many cases of dysentery,
and, though that discovery has not yet
led to any Improvement In prevention or
treatment, and will therefore not lower,
during this struggle, the death rate from
that dire foe of tha soldier In war time,
no ono doubts that this is the first step
toward our control of another deadly dis
ease. Tho third discovery Is really more Inter
esting, because It raises newer problems.
There Is In the body of each of us a pair
of organs known aa the adrenal glands
yet unknown to the public, though life
could, not continue without them. It was
a Japanese chemist, Takamlne, who Isolated
from these glands the Invaluable sub
stancess which they produce for the benefit
of the rest of the body. It is known as
adrenalin, and nearly every sample of It,
if prepared by a good Arm, bears upon
it the name of that distinguished Japanese.
It is the most powerful of ail chemical
agents for stopping hemorrhage. It will
arrest bleeding from the nose when every,
thing else haa failed; not thut that much
matters, for the nose Is accessible to mo
chanlcal means, but adrenalin has already
saved many lives that were already ooslng
away In a thin red stream no surgeon
could reach.
. "Kenso Umeharl, a second-claw engineer,
was one of the desperate seventy-seven
who sallied forth to block the entranoe to
Port Arthur by sinking their ships," says
a Japanese newspaper. "He has died of his
wounds. His aged father, when he re
ceived the news of his son's death, ad
dressed his family as follows: 'Now, boys,
your elder brother died an honorable death
at the blockade of Port Arthur. Ills doath
was for the sake of our country, so we
must not woep, but rather it should make
us proud. Suppose that he should hear our
sorrowful voioo, certainly he would not
be pleased; therefore, you must not drop
tears.' After saying this he lit a small fire
and burned incense sticks to commemorate
the bravo sailor's death, according to tha
Buddhist custom. All his family followed
hlra without tears."
The following are extracts from tho Port
Arthur Nogoodskl, translated by the New
York Globe:
Several shells fell in our midst yesterday.
General Kouropatkin arrived from Har
bin yesterday. He la regarded as a har
binger of better things.
We thought heard an explosion In the
arsenal this morning, but Investigation
showed it to bo a false report. ,
Admiral Togo paid us a flying visit yes
terday. Come again. Tog.
The torpedo boat Huchikuutil has not re
turned from Its visit to the outside. It Is
feared that Its crew haa gone to a watery
grave.
BUI Bonesky says this is the worst spring
he haa known In fifty-three years. He
predicts shell atornia for tbe next three
months.
The hall of sheila is damaging the crops
some.
One swallow doesn't make a spring, but
one shall does.
P3RIC
CREAM
BAKING POWDER
A baking; powder of highest class and
highest leavening strength. Makes the
food purer, sweeter and more wholesome
Tested and Approved by the Government
OTHER I.ASDS THAN OCRS.
Revolutionary demonstrations In Poland
have been very frequent Of late, aecording
to a Russian correspondent of a London
newspaper. As an ofTet against these ex
hibltlons of disloyalty, the government an
nounces that the municipalities of War
saw and other Polish towns have contrib
uted sums of money to the war funds. It
does not explain, however, that these mu
nicipalities are not elective, but creations
of the authorities in St. Petersburg. The
councils which administer 'rural districts
have a more representative chnructer, and
every rural commune has Its special "emer
gency fund." According to the law, a fund
of this kind may be used for local purposes
If the rural council Is absolutely unani
mous In Its decision. Until now, says the
correspondent, the centrsl government has
never encouraged such expenditure. It has
either contrived to prevent unanimity or
found a pretext for disallowing the decision
when it was unanimous. These emergency
funds now amount In some districts to very
considerable sums. The government dls.
cerns In them a source of revenue for war
purposes, end Is encouraging the councils
to summon meetings. Patriotic speeches
arc delivered to Induce the peasants to vote
in favor of making grants In support of
the war. In some districts, however, the
peasants havs refused unanimously to do
anything of the kind, and the authorities
have not ventured to proceed further. But
wherever tho proposal was favored by a
few, even though opposed by the majority,
the resolution has been declared to be car
ried, and the money quickly drawn.
No matter how many army corps the
czar may command In Europe, his tenure
of Manchuria depends upon the number
which can bo sent there and kept sup
piled with arms and provisions .by means
of a single track railway over 4,000 miles
long. At the rate of TOO men per day,
which seems to be the limit of the avail
able transport facilities, It would require
a whole year to increase General Kouro
patkin's army to the desired number of
(00,000 men. Even with an army of this
strength It would be far from an even
fight for tho Russians. Ten to one Is the
proportion Which, according to modern
strategists. Is required to Insure suocess
In frontal attacks against Intrenchments.
The Japanese would bo sure to ocnupy and
fortify every approach to tha coast dis
tricts held by them, and, the wings of
their armies being protected on either aide
by their navy, they could not be out
flanked. The problem of driving the Japa
nese. Into the sea Is one that Russia may
And it Impossible to solve without tha co
operation of a fleet; and the loss of Rus
sia's naval base has mads this Impossible.
The fierce attack upon Russia made by
Herr Bebel, the eloquent and resolute so
cialist loader, in the Reichstag on Monday
doubtless reflected the sympathies of many
German liberals, who. would regard the
triumph of Russia In the war with Japan
as an event which would Impart strength
to autocratic government in Europe. This
is the tendency which German liberalism
is resisting, and, aside from the papular ad.
miration of tha prowess of the Japanese
which seems to exist in Germany, Russian
success presents 'Itself to the social demo
crats ss an obstruction to their purposes.
This feeling appears to be little affected by
the fact that the commercial tie between
Germany and Russia is strong. The largest
share of tho German foreign trade Is with
Russia. The Isolation of Germany from re
cent negotiations and understandings does
not check the aggressiveness of the social
democrats, notwithstanding the appeal of
the emperor In his speech at Carlsruhe to
the political parties to sink their strife In
view of the grave outlook outside the em-1
pine. It has had no effect, at any rate,
upon the free lances In the Reichstag, and
party feeling Is apparently as intense as
ever. Herr Bebel boldly rebuked the em
peror for his references to France In the
Carlsruhe speech, and flatly repudiated as a
reflection of the sentiments of the German
people the dispatch to Emperor Nicholas
regretting the sinking of the battleship
Petropavlovsk.
The British soldiers In Thibet have been
having a peculiar experience with the art
of wsr In high altitudes Thibet Is so high
above the sea that ordinary ruleo are often
suspended and a little scientific knowledge
becomes Indispensable to the successful
commander. At 15,000 feet above tha sea It
was found that the rice ration for the men
was Insufficiently cooked, and the cause of
this was that the boiling point of water
descends rapidly aa the altitude Increases.
The native Indian soldiers In the expedi
tion have been greatly mystified by the
antics ef the rice pot at 15,000 feet. The
most Important difficulty attending the
campaign has been the effect of the cold
and high altitude upon the Maxim guns
and the rifles. The oil used as a lubricant
became a clog so fsr above the sea, while
the springs In the guns had their elasticity
Staying' Power for
TIRED BRAINS
Horsford's Acid Phosphate is a boon
to the overworked Officeman, Student
and Teacher. It keeps the mind clear,
the nerve steady and the body strong.
HORSFORD'S ACID PHOSPHATE.
seriously affected. The officers In command
of tho expedition teem to havo had no con
ception of these difficulties when they
started for Thibet, and their rmel!es have
necesssrlly been crude, although no harm
has come to the force, cwlng to tha ex
treme backwardness of tke Thibetans In
modern warfare.
In Germany In 1S74 a statute was passed
requiring that every child must be vac
cinated before completing the tJrst year of
its aire and again when 12 years old. This
statute has been rigidly Hiforced and as a
result Germany has been kept well-nigh
free from the smallpox. In a population of
over 60,000,000 the average during the last
twelve years has been only fifty cuses. The
system of Immediately quarantining a
smallpox patient, as Is done in Baltimore,
prevails Ir. Germany and complete Isola
tion Is attained. Rigid rules in regard to
the disinfection of clothing are observed.
and while every effort Is made to save the
patient's life, the safety of other Is alio
considered. Germany not only believes In
thorough vaccination, but can now present
facts to prove Its Inestimable value. Great
Britain, on tho other hand, has hearkened
to the protests of the antl-vacrlnatlonlsts
and has psld dearly for Ita folly. On ac
count of the opposition to the compulsory
law Parliament about six years ago made
the statute less rigid, and as a result small
pox hna become far mora prevalent than
formerly. Instead of an average of fifty
cases in a population of 60,000.000. as In
Germany, Great Britain shows an annual
mortality of 900 In a population of 82.600,000.
These figures are matters of record and
there can be no contradiction of them.
LIKES TO A LAUGH.
When Mary fainted why didn't tho count
catch her before she fell?"
"He has rheumatism in both of his arms."
"Confound the fellow: isn't there any way
he can aupport hart" Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Skinflint If anything should happen to
me. dearest, you wtU be all right. I've
Just insured my life. T
"But suppose nothing does happen to
you!" Modern Society.
Millionaire What are you doing hanging
around here?
Weary Willie I'm a sociologist Investi
gating de homes of do wealthy. New York
Sun.
Free Sllvertte Leader You concede that
I am honest in my views, don't you?
Reorganlser Certainly.
Free Sllvertte leader (In a triumphant
tone Well, doesn't that prove that all who
differ with me are dishonest I-Chicago
Tribune.
"Say," remarked the village lawyer, as ho
entered the general store, '1 want a ribbon
for my typewriter."
"All right, sir," responded the new clerk.
"Do you want one for her or for tt?" Phil,
adelphia Inquirer.
"My Idea of a wise man," said the youth
who thought he knew things, . " one who
knows when to stop talking."
"A man who possessea the genuine brand
of wlwluin," rejoinod the venerable phi
InsoDher. "knows when not n HsHn " r ...
lie s Weekly. '
"Boss," began the beggnr, "can t you
nelD mar I mint at nntMn tnr hr.
days,"
"Oh! I see," lnterrupated Crabbe, "try
ing to make a record for fastlnsr. eh? Well
I'll help you all I can. Dnn'i ltf ma unn
you. Good-day I" Philadelphia Press.
"Why don't you shave yourself J"
"Because I can't And thut thr la nnv
more satisfaction In cutting myself than li
having a barber out mo."-Chlcago Post,
'See here!" said the snoiirtv utmrinr
"you BOoak (if 1lns tllnm,i,M mm 'iV,.
knnwledgd beauty of th vounaer sot.' "
"Yes. Well," replied Ills ussisUnt.
"Who acknowledges that?"
"She doa.' philudelphlu Press.
,. "ther exnmplr of faulty Eng.
llsh." said the teacher of the class III
rhetoric. "In this essay you have written,
'her sljcht broke upon a landscape of en
trancing loveliness.' How could any one's
slaht 'break uwm' a landscape?"
mm rniKiu nave arojipea ner eyes," tim
idly ventured the young woman who had
written the essay. Chicago Tribune.
KITTT AftTllORH.
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Kitty Asthore.
Is the heart of you sleeping?
You with the laugh, ajid the wonderful
yt
Faith. If you knew how the dull hours,
creeping,
Cry for your face as the Banshee that
cries. .
Lifting .white arms to the moon In the
Skies
You even you would give heed to my
weeping,
And fling me a thought ere the sound of
it dies.
Kitty Asthore,
Is the heart of you sleeping?
Kitty Asthore,
Is the heart of yoq waking?
You with the curls and the Hower snm
hands;
Here is a heart that is yours for tho
taking
Here is a life to obey your commands
Come to your own from the eun-amltun
lands!
Come for the waves of my sorrow are
Here"at'yoir feet, on the alien sands.
Kitty Asthore, , , ,
is the hesrt of you waking?
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