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run (Vtai-a p. AIM nni2: FKIDAY, JULY 1, 1C3. Ti::: Omaha Daily En B, KOKCWATKR, EDITOR. published evert morning. TERMH OF EUH-SCRIPTION. Polly lice (without Sunday), On Vear..4 .. iifp Slid Wun.lsy, One Year 1 luHtrated llee, On Year... 2 H'ik.Ikv !, (,n lenr..., , jS-,"J Ktur.iny J'ee, tins leur 1-"' IwenUeih Century Farmer. One Year.. lo DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Pslly He wlO.ut Hundsy). per ropy., J'iy lie (without Bun. lay), lr wek...l.!e 1'sl'y He (including fcunday), per week.l.c f'inilay le, per ropy...., J venlnij Hce (without Handily), per week. C Evening Uee (incluuing Hunrtay), l""",, we'k . Vy. 'ih)ili'ilnU of irregularity In delivery should bo addrexsed Ui City Circulation l.epartment OFFICES. . Omalm-Tln Ren RulMlng. F.mth (tmaln-Cllv Hall Building, Twen-ty-tifth moi M Btrects. Council l.tuiYs-10 Pearl Ptrer-t, , 1 li(cr-tl,,n I'Hty Building. ew Wk 2? Park Row Building.-' ', Washington Hit Fourteenth Htreet. COHHKHrOXHKNCE. -' 'mmnn'f'ntiorn relating to news anil edl t "il tl i'ihh.t phini)'! be addressed:, Omaha ii i!, l.oltoiUl Department. . . - KEMlTTANCKS. ; Ttemtt tvA'raft, express or postal order, f viil 1h lie publishing; .'tnpny. ( o'y 2-cei.t stamps received In payment of noiil ureooniH. personal dieckfl. exoept On (..rctri or e r et T'Ti excn-4nir'ri, not accepted.. , THE BEE I'VkilA&lilSU COMPANY. , CTATF-MRNT OP CinCT'LATJON. HtJit of Nebraska., Dougliia County, pa.: tieorif H. Tzsehiirk, secretary of The Be . Publishing Comimny, being duly a worn, iwy tliat the uctrml number of full and r niptete copies of The f HiTy, Morning. Evening nnoVBunday He p-tnt.-d during the rmmuijf June, liei, waa aa follows; 1 ,i.StJI,W , . 15 v.2,43 I...!. ;n,Tin , 17 jrn.KNO 3 2i,T20 IS 21.K.-1 4 ,..2U,TZ 19. 2S.120 6 .S,yBO ' 20 2HMI7 ..2W.TTCO ' 21..; sr,740 7 2,71K 22 ;..X1,TOO e a,To 23 r..7seo t.i 21,00 24 .jO,lM0 10 ...JHI.400 ' 25...., ,.25,74M 11 30,033 Vt..., 7,7t 13 aa.sso Z7.t ....ho.iio 13 ,..8J00O ' ' 28....... ,m 14 ....20,030 29 5M-.fi SO lu 30,110 : to.. a,7o Total. .. ...... ...... St'3teft L unsold and returned coplea..'.. ,71 Net total aajea....:. 87.VJT !bal!y average 2,1JJI GEO. fe. TZSCHUCK. Bubeiriljed In'niy preBtica and sworn to before ma thla SW.h Uuy or June, A. 1). 1904, iF,-al . M. B. HUNGATE, . Notary public - Anotlicr installment bf Nebraska's fat famed corn-growing weather la about duo. , - : On second sober thouglit a campaign on thh water wagon was too much for Ceneral Miles. . If the grown-upa 'will provide th$ safe I'ourth of July tle children will provide the sound part thereof. All Omaha, excepting 'possibly the V: 'ulers In fireworks and toy pistols, wuts a sane Fourth of July. ItUHslan newspapers announce the In tention of Russia to seize Corea. Dis tance In this case, must lend enchant ment to th4 view, . : ' r With tfie filing contests the demo cratic love feast has already begun at bt Louis, and the Kilkenny cats will have to look to their record. . . ' . fcwn tary Hay's style of diplomatic dt'iillns in the case of Morocco Is said to have startled Europe,, but as It produced ilo dcbireJ results emulation may fol low surprise. ' " . r-ji.ker Washington's rewponsa'to the attack by Governor Vardaman of Mls-t'v.--'iTt v;-ca iiei'i'0 ecluen,fIoa comes a Kttle lntr- but it Lns the merit of being yke-l by r-roof., ' ; T- (loniK.Tatic organ grinders appear f -, ' j i.iore Interested in the selection of :' ) chairman of the republican state committee than the republican news i apcra and. loaders. ' : . ' . ' If the forctiibte of the discord at St. Ixni?8 is an lmb? to the aftermath, the coluiiitsM of tho local press will have aplenty of contributions over the names of tiiotlnguliihetf democrats. ' ' Tlia Junior yellow has already nom iittttrd T " Cui'oy for cw.grc."3 ' fcy cnaB!:'!ou9 vote. The same veracious Bhei-t had Governor Mickey turned down the day tho convention nominated him. ' How much of the enthusiasm was due to the picttt-uce of the prophet and what was duo io the presence of the alleged inilMoti-dollar bride will be left to the r-ni-J;iata of Dowie'a ZIon to decide. The stand imttrs and the democrats In Iowa eppenr to have agreed as to the meaning of the tariff plank, of the repub lican platform, but they will disagree on eno'.iKh -points that the fur will fly hone t' less. It's an etiy thing for the railroads to t'jlse rates ' under pretenae.of revlnlng tarii? classification. What Omaha mu!t hK)k out for Is that when revlttious are made they do not discriminate agalnnt Omaha Industries. 1 If tb(sa experts who are telling all about the prolmbie effect of the present uiovcmt'uts of the armies in the Orient J. uve the Interests of their readers at If.. rt they will explain some of their recent cipht nations. il ap tl.e reason the prominent .loin tire apparently paying so little ,t oli to BelliTig In the public '. at this time is bs-cauwe they hope ire the pupils for the phonetic 0 i t fin 'liu now mi. Lt coiiwUh-ra- 1 j- tho National IMueuiioiuil etao- '.it ; . i i t . -t t If t'.c c,! ".- iti I tl.e lorUout Is the t ( !-,, t i f cou:!.'t that can be ,: 1 ly i!! (ttv.a tit.ttti.u of eiii(i!oj' i (i- (, ;.!. ex, 't!ier cf thh'h. In . . I : h i , lot-! f. i . !' ith the Liter- at i f 1 i t l-ar'.!- , tl-i.M (.i.-.iiiia-i -11 -. i : t:...C Ih.-y ! t i '.. 1 i a ! . a . ii I - ; :. X'F.wktiatk cau i;i.Arvys. Some of the estimates nui'lo by the democrats In their efforts to C?ro out a victory In this year's cie-Uoii are en tertaining and rn aiuuHlnjr. .There are 47tt electoral votes find -"'J aw neces sary to a choice. Of these tin? deni'V crata can count safely upon IT.!), -which Is elKhty short of Uie numl er rcpslred to elect. If tht democratic hope of car rying New Yorlv, Illinois and Indiana should be. realized that would be nu!h cient, but It Is hardly within the possi bilities that they can win In. all these three states. Without the Empif state die democratic campaign - Is Of course hopeless and existing condition In that state afe such as td warrant the belief that it rannot be carried by the democ racy this year. ' . ' - ' As to 'Illinois, '-4:1,000 Is the smallest republican margin In That state in ten years. The average, has been more than R0,(KV It was nearly 90,000 In the last election two years sico. .Indiana hna not gone dento,crstIc since, is's. jt K-ive McKinley a plurality of Kii.470 in IfKM), when both tho republicans and demo crats had the largest k-'tal vote In their h'story, and two years es, n ta exer tion for secretary of state, tho repub licans had a plurality of 355i. It Is therefore apparent that the democratic chn'ncts oft carrying either of these states next November are extremely slim. Decause there Is a republican fac tional quarrel. In Wisconsin some of the democratic calculations Include- that state, but Wisconsin Is not to be rer garded as even doubtful. , In recent years 47,000 - Is the low. Water mark republican plurality In that state and; 50,000 is only normal. In-lftOO the Mc Kinley plurality In Wisconsin was 10fl, rSl. The factional trouble there Is not likely to affect mnterielly If at all the republican vote on presidential electors. O-ne of the calculations .Includes Idahd Montana and Nevada, bn there Is very good reason vto believe tfiat these, states are as secure for- the republican ticket tjs Is Iowa. Of course the democrats fig ure on New Jersey and Connecticut, bnt ii Is hardly possible that either of those states can be won by that party, with its free trade tendency. ' There is ' really' no basis in, present conditions, for democratic dreams of suc cess and the professed belief of the lead ers of that party that there is to be a great popular change In its behalf, that will carry the party into power is pred icated upon tio evidence and If sincerely entertained show's an utter misapprehen sion of the popular Intelligence and dis cernment. The thoughtful people of the country are not complaining of repub lican policies or republican administra tion and there Is no substantial ground for compnlnt They do not. want a change .that would very certainly Impair bulness confidence and produce Indus-, trial and commercial depression. . Ttyey have no reason for confidence Mn the democracy, Vnt very clear , and strong reasons for distrusting that party. There Is most favorable promised of revival of business and a mtlnuance of oros-' pertt and this will contribute greatly to republican success, .... -.. v ;. ... . OBJECT TO OVlt METHODS. The mcmrlal of German manufactur ers t the government,' in - which they object to certain features of American customs administration, j will ddubtless ! d to n effort on tlie part Of the Ger man government to have the matter considered at Washington. There 1 is probably some merit la the complaint of the Gorman manufacturers and it ought to have the effect to '-direct the atten tion of congress to "the points contained In the memorial, but of course there will be., no change applying solely to German manufacturers.: If there is modification on the lines suggested In the memorial it must apply generally and it is doubtful whether congress will be disposed to do this. . - - r . ' v Our customs administration Is the, re sult of long experience and a most careful study of . what i, essential, but It Is by no means to be concluded that it Is free from defects. At almost every ftnn Of ooneTei change, tnethodg I3 siif,'!.''steti, due o complainf from Amer ican lniiMrters, but the disposition has been not to disturb what experience has' demonstrated to be on the. 'whole a good system. In the event, however, of the German memorial bringing out a sim ilar coirp'.slnt from ether fw!jn manu facturers, which it Is quite likely to do, a modification of the customs admin istration may be found expedient That can of course be done without touch ing the tariff schedules. ' , '- ' A NEW, riSC 41. YE AO. ' ' . A new fiscal year at the federal gor erumeut bifgins today, when the ap proprlntlons nisda at the last tension of congrtisa, for the -expes! of-the gov ernment from now imtll June BO, l'Jlij, become 'avallaj.)le. During te year Just closed there was a small excess of receipts over expenditures, but the sur plus Is smaller than for several years and less than had been estimated by the secretary ' of .-the . treasury. The total receipt's of the year Ml BbuutfiO.OtKXOOO below tho preceding year, while the totul expenditures Increased to the same amount, rractli-ally "the entire decline In gross receipts was due to the falling off lo customs returns, tlie receipts from lu torriul revenue taxis and niscellaneous suurves being a fiV liilliioris in excexs of -the pretlous year. Virtually the whole inert aeie In t-xperi.liiun'B was ou account of the navy. The Pa: iiua pnyiuvnt and the loan to tho I.ov u.a I'D n liKKrt expotiitlon mat.-. i.,!ly u- Uii-i-l t MUtUahltt cash tu the tr. .i-'.'ry, ! ot it li;.,0ci),i.ii. u-.ir mill nbov ( H 11 ).(. J,. .hi r- . ? V tuy hhow lo' at th.e t!M!;l ji 1 1 Is (hen i ...f. - - tin re U l . -it b xj-' t t:.. till ClHUlt the Jfir.i), '1 ho reas- 1 f a new r..t 1.1 y and t th!.- couiil ti.ui ir! - lift -1 m- t i.rou, hoot th.i year, lllilesi th. (.' hhooM t.O f.li ll lloei.e.i fof f.,!.;: 1 t T 1. 1 te., l in. U U r-t biiprob- ,' j ',' ' ! n,!:-.if -..( . .t;.i. W ill be Jcfis during the current yeir than they were last year, so that a surplus at the close of the yef,r cannot bo confidently counted on. Indeed it is quite possible that there will lie a deficit, but this would cause no trouble, ss shown by the available cash balance. The govern ment lias never been financially sounder than It i at present and It would cer tainly be a very grest mistake to depart from the policy which bas produced this condition, ' . , UXCALI.KD FOH ASft r,Y W4HRAXTED. The chairman of the republican com mittee of th Second congressional dis trict has once, more rushed into' print with an ;en letter addressed to Mr. P.obert Cowell, chairman of the repub lican jbounty committee, formally re questing a conference with a Mew to fixing a date for "calling the primary election that isto- nominate delegates to the congressional convention, candidates for the legislature and candidates for the county ot!)ces to be- filled -at the coming election. Incidentally Chairman Cowell is also requested to arrange for Joint regulation "end control of the pro posed primaries by th'ecounty and con. grcsslonal committees. Yv Tiy a letter addressed by one chair man representing the congressional com mittee, addressed to the chairman repre senting the county committee of tbs same party should be given publicity can only b explained on the presump tion that the chairman of tho congres sional coramlttee craves nqfortety rather than party t success. ' Such correspond ence' Is always presumed to be confiden tial and lo very rarely given out unless a controversy arises that compels one or tie other of the, contracting parties , in Belf justification tp apprise the public of his position. - . - ': .-, Tlxe situation In this district is, how ever, exceptional. The. chairman of the congressional committee always ' bag claimed to act and epeaft for the -whole committee) which In reality he carries in his pocket. The , chairman of the Douglas county committee, on the con trary, while possessing ample power for conducting campaigns la nojVln position to arrogate to himself authority to speatc and act for the whole committee without at least conferring with its members. ' It goes' without saying that the 'prop osHlon to hold Joint primaries for the nomination 'of delegates to the congres sional convention and delegates to the county convention, or 'candidates for the legislature and other offices, to be filled In Douglas county will meet with no opposition from any quarter. The prop osition to allow the congressional . com mittee to exercise Joint control over the primaries la , Douglas county beyond joint agreement as to the data of these primaries will Justly be resenbjd end denounced; as' unwarranted and Intoler able Interference ialth the county com mittee. ' '- , The function and duty of the congres sional committee is to fix the apportiqn ment of delegates to which each of the respective counties In the district shall be entitled in the congressional convenr tion, to set the "time for holding the con vention and name the place where' it Is to be heJd. This Is as far as the con gressional committee Aas a right o go. It Is" for the. county committee In each of the three counties 'In this district to locate the. voting places and conduct the primary election under Its own rules and to Issue certificates to the delegates duly elected to represent the county In the congressional convention. ' '' ; The congressional committee has no more rlht to " designate : the.' voting phizes, came the election oflleers or su pervise the primary election Sn the vari ous . wards and precincts of Douglas county than the'state committee hnS to do the same thing when delegates are chosen to represent this county; in the state convention. .Even if the congres sional committee should arrogate to it self the supervision Of the primary elec tions the conditions under which the pri maries are conducted must be uniform In each of the three counties that make up the district In other words, if there la tO'be congressional committee super vision in Don gin county the Mm conrse must also be pursued In Barny and Washington counties. Any attempt to Impeach the integrity of Douglas county republicans by discriminating rules Blm ply ' means the disruption of the party and disaster at the pd's In November. Tlie New York steamboat disaster has brought out an order from Secretary of Commerce Oortelyou for the rigid In-; spection of all passenger carrying steam ers in New York harbor. But'New York is not the only place w here the rigid in spection of passenger carrying ' vessels Is important, and the rigid Inspection of passenger carrying vessels ia not tho only safeguard that the tjovernment end the municipalities ehotildjirovlde for th protection of hudian life. f The periodic relnfpection of theaters, public halls, storehouses, hotels and tenements to pre vent conflagrations and the loss of pre cious lives should be made a regular business in every population renter In Omaha, in Chicago and in San Francisco as well as In New York., Periodic spasms like those that followed the Iro quois holocaust and the General Slocnm disaster do not count for much. The manager of the Auditorium says that the regular charges for the use of that building are 00 per cent of the gross receipts where the lessee pays for the advertising and f0 per cent where the Auditorium management defrays the advertising en'nses. , The figure are hlo given out to show that for the recent band concert festival over f 18,000 was taken iu and over ftl.OOO paid the bandmaster. This would indicate that 10 per cent, or fl.Kix), was held out for advertising expenses. We would like to know bow much of it wus really spent for KvJiliiu'te "advertising purposes, l'.n on-r county is the second to file a n i' s of p.- t.sM xsineiit "Willi the Plate l'..,ard if 1 ; t:.:.i.'.tluu, but the rvturiis Justify .the prediction that it will be the banner county In its exhibit of decreased valuations. This fact does not, how ever, by any means constitute an 1m penchment of tho-county assessor, but simply shows what has been asserted time and again, that most of the counties In thfe extreme westcra portion of Ne braska Were retnrned heretofore at ex cessively high valuations as compared with counties In tho central and eastern portions of the state chiefly because they wanted to make a fpspeetable showing. Break It Getly, Flae. Chiraa-o Record-Herald. Iet tha committee that Is to notify the president of his nomination remem,ber that sudden, joy aa well as audden sorrow la often dangerous. ' Work, for Vtilllan; Ilaada. New York Tribune. ' The wheat fields 'of the west are waiting for harvesters. . in this , broad land thsra are work and opitTrrtunitloii foV all, but the workers niunt jo'to the work; It will pdt come to them. . . ' ' ' " ,One Way Get Ahead. . . . , " ' ! ' . - Baltimore American. , , -The report that Dr. Powle's son Is to marry a' BwUa "mtllloniilress, 'a a remit Cf tils trtp abroad, would make It r.r that the tour has been a rood deal more of a. ucre? than a prejucileed press la Ttllllng; to admit. ' . " A Slaht for OalLfry Ooda. ' Mlnnespolls Timea. Mr. Fckeli la a Clsreland delrgate of the tnoet pronounced 'typo. He Is going- to St, Louis aa a member f t the Illinois delnra tlon. Under the unit rule It will be hia rreat privilege to, Ypte' fcjr' Pllly Hearat. You can lmaglna how ha enjoys it. ' ' CVvelanA le!lTa. ' . (Springfleid Republican (Ind.).' v " There will b one Interesting national convention this year,' and It will meet at Si. Ixiula.' In considering It, have .n ere out for the orator who may get up and nominate Orover Cleveland The attempt la scarcely likely th succeed, but that. the attempt will be made' Is not at ail beyond the range of, probability.'. . fhe Swift Pnee la fcermany. Kansas -City Star. , . ' ' The attention of good. Americans might ba directed to the .fact that tha two chief elecUIcalJInus of Germany are ottering to construct a high speed line from Berlin to Hamburg, 180 nil lee. .One offers to guar antee a speed of 100 mllea an hour and the) other holds out the Inducement of IS miles. The United States has no line that attempts to approach this speed. America has al ways, prided Itself on Its pre-eminence In electrical matters. j.'Buf thougll? Us great distances make high speed .transportation of first importance, the country aeema likely to -be. outdone In the proneer work In this field by the .plodding but thorough Ger mans, ... J ",f '';..' . V ' tllaek'a Nonilnattna- Speeek . Portland Oregonlan. . ' Governor Black'a nominating speech Will make plendld campaign materia j and the voters should not be permitted, to , forget the eloquent words of .his faithful' charac terisation.. In that speech and hose, which followed It were summed up the argu ments upon which this campaign will be fought, and every 'republican who Intends to do- fffectlve work for his party should become familiar telth .those clearly ex preesed Toason why Theodore' Roosevelt should be 'ejected, v , The addresses were not shallow Impromptu talks.' They were Btudled productions- from the minds cf America's greatest public men, and every one of them H 'WTff thy if . more than a. temporary place Jn'lhe records of Ameri can oratory.;-. ,. ;. . '-,, '..-, . .' . -V -. 'ii .rOCR YEARS, AGQ. '' '," Itaeolleetioaa, ot the lnat Republleaa v v National Convention. : , , . . v Baltimore American.! ( 1 , The close approach .of the republican national convention " must Inevttably , re call In vivid speotjicl the convention of four years ago at Philadelphia which renominated President McKinley and In advertantly, by Inexplicable destiny, doomed him to death by asatfnatlon. No one of (he thousands who Jalned entrance td the great hail of the Museums 'building and none of tho millions who ren4 of the proceedlnga could ever forget the' enthusi asm with, which wns mef every mention of the name of McKinley. .Ha was serving the last year of his term, 'which hud been an era of almost unparalleled prosperity to the entire country. The Spanish war had been fought. Cuba, had -been surrendered to the Uqlted State for the Cubans, Porto Rico and the Philippines' had been acquired, the Hawaiian .group had been annexed. Following this prosperity and these trfl hunt achievements this Hirst national con vention of the. dominant party was natur ally one of almost unexampled enthusiasm. In the light of the last three years it must seem that, President McKinley re moved by as vile a tragedy aa ever black ened the pages of history, something more than human forettlgut directed the nomina tion of Governor Roosevelt for tha vice presidency. Representative, now Senator Dolliver, of Iowa, was -the leading candi date for that oitloe, and his battle was ably generated by Governor, now 'Secretary Shaw. Lieutenant-Governor Woodruff, of New York, had the great delegation cf hi state behind him. Other less conspicuous candidate were In tha field, all well un derstanding that the success of any one depended upon the resolution, which was apparently Inexorable, of Governor Roose velt not to accept the vice presidential nomination. But, -leading the New York delegation, cheered at every appearance as a great figure of the tr, remembered for hi vaat energy and thoroughness in the several important offices he had held, the convention, delegate and apeotator, de manded'trmt he be nominated regardless of hi own wishes, and through the pies the whole country echoed the demaint It w as written that President McKinley, gentle, lovable, a pure a man aa ever lived, should go to Buffalo to perform an Important function and there to die. That being the Inevitable It was matter for uni versal congratulation that a man with the grasp upon public affairs, such as President Roosevelt, bad been elected to take up the work of th ehlef executive. Without In the least beclouding the ability of any of the candidates for .the vice presidential oftice, it la poeKlble that not one would have proved like President Roosevelt equal In a prompt and masterly way to every emergency. Probably not another publlo man In th whole land would have had the alertness and the courage to deal with th Panama question in the manner which thrilled the world with admlration-for It audacity, for a little while excited the alarm of the tlndd and (snorant, and then wu given the verdict by nu n xI all par tics and countries tluit his jiiKimr of grap pling with the delhate conditions was a stroke of sublime genius. Not only, therefore, are the enthusiaatk! r.oiiiinatlon of President McKinley and Ms lameutable d.ath. recalled vividly at this time, but nUi) the dramatic, providential nomliuitlon of Governor Roosevelt for the second i'lac will have a new meaning sad vitality In emphaM of tlie wisdom of hit policy in a trlumph'tnt nomination -fur the high office which be hold only t.y vir tue of a su' cnnaioi) about wLileh there u,ut Uucr tuv!tuM an atinoithei uf trst'2'. GOSSIP OF TUB WAR. - Tare Coaamandera f th Japanese Army 1 tha Fteld.- . A nstlv of Japan with an unpronounce able nam contribute to the New York Independent a akotch of the career of the commander of th three army corp of the Island empire now moving against th main army of Russia In Manchuria. Taking them In th order ot their rank th writer say: . , Ueneral It el KuroVl, tha commander In chief of the First Japanese grmy corps In the field, wu born la th "year 1846 In Satauma (thV province ot Batsuma Is In the southern extremity of Klushlu and may be called the Bparta of Japan). Th hero of the recent battle of Talu ia a typical soldier ot Batsuma character. - In htm there ia - no dement of - cowardice. He 1 courage personified. ' II lived th life of a o4dtr from boyhood, gradually rising from a low rank in the army until ha waa promoted to a generalship: . In the war of restoration In lSea he served at the head of a detachment ot the Imperial army.' In 1871 he waa pro moted to tbe rank of a captain In the Imperial Guard division.. In th south western war of 1877 he, fought - for th mikado continually . for IS days against Takamorl Salgo, a man from hi own province, who rebelled against the mi kado's government because - it had not taken hi counsel to reprimand Corea' for it misdemeanor In 1875. Among th Satsumans there wa ' a division of opin ion. Borne sympathized with Salgo, oth er rebuked Mm for hi error. In 188t when a prince of Sweden visited Japan, Kurokl, I as a staff officer, surprised th visitor with hi show of military tactics. Ia 18H3 ha was a lieutenant general and th commander of tho Bixth division at Kumamoto. ' Two years later war was declared between China and Japan. The order for th. movement ot the troop were issued. After th regulars and tha first reserve of th Sixth, division de parted, KarokT nerve wo severely taxed whil he was replacing the vacancy with the second . reserves partly because at times he neglected meals and shortened hours of sleep, Zmt chiefly became ha wa anxlou to go to th front rather than tay at home. Later,. when h waa In th storms of battle fields, he ald to some on, fl feel very much relieved now that I am In the field."' 1 - ! In the capture of. Wei Jlai Wet Which wa achieved, on th land atack by th combination of. force from the Second and. the JJfxth divisions, Kurokl had done all in bla power to assist Lieutenant Gen eral 8akuma, who wa In command of th Second division, in the Joint attack of th stronghold. , .1 Soma year after th war, when Generals Yamagata and Oyama were made field marshes, Kurokl, together with Oku and Noxu, was pronioted to the rank ot a gen eral., ' s ; ' General Hokyo Oktl, 'the .oommander-ln ehlef of the Second Japanese army corps In the jleld, first made himself prominent In 1S77, when, as a, major colonel In the Im perial army, he defended th castle of Kumamoto, under the command- of Major General - Kanjo Tanl, against the firm In vestment of the castle by the southwest ern rebels under Tukamorl Salgo, Japan's Jefferson Davis. This war, It must be ex plained, was, Ilk the civil war of th United States, the war that might . hav torn Japan, asunder. The castle of Ku mamoto, once taken by th rebels. It wa apparent "that ' there wa no -checking of their advance toward- the 'capital 'city of Tokio,. where they would force th gov ern men t official to do the pleasure of the ringleader. It waa Major' Colonel Qku who boldly, lwd . the sortie, broke through the besiegers and 'established communica tion with: the Imperial reinforcement out sld. Thus, he knows what it' la to ba be sieged, and consequently know how to deal with th besieged In the Port Arthur fortress. - - - ..; ' ,- '. ' 1- Imring the Chinese-Japanese . war he stayed at home a tha commander of ' th Sixth division aft Kumamoto, td succeed Lieutenant General Kurokl, who went ..to. the front . After the war, when Japan wa divided tito three different sections of milliary administration the eastern, . the middle arid the western Lieutenant Gen era! Oku was made the head of the east ern. At " the coronation,. of Edward VII of Eheland as the eirtperor of India, Oku represented .Japan' In the Indian part of the ceremony. In October, 1803, he was promoted to the rank of, a general and made a permanent member of th council of war. ' . ' Although he is not a Satsuroan, but a Bungoan (th province of Bungo Is on the Pacific' coast pf Klushlu end may be called the Corinth of Japan), yet,' as the commander-in-chief of tha . Second ' Japa nese army corps he ha already performed ' an epoch-making feat at Kin .Chou and at the Nanshan hill. It is but a. question of a week or two before he wil reach to the climax of tha Russo-Japanese war namely, the fall of Port; Arthur, which even a, -year-old child know by Instinct will happen. . ' .' - - . . . ( ' . n.r,l Vflehltsura Nodsu. . th pi'obaU ooramander-in-chief of th Third Japanes Army corps, wa born In Satsutna, ilk Geueral Kurokl. with alt th characUruitic of a Sataumanv He is a iff yn' the senior of his fellow provincial oldir. The rii ar-.n WnV he was not placed In com mand of the First army ar many1. Among other, the fact that n. naa aireaajr n i ih, .imiiAr position In time of th Chinese-Japanese war stands pre-eminent, because, when there are omer oirci, though younger, yet just a bcav a hiOT.oir thrra waa no reason wny in younger men hould not he given a chance. In hi younger day h served aa a major colonel In the Imperial army, In the southwestern1 civil war. In tho Chinese-Japanese war, however, h had eon centrated liU energy. Which wa Inspired in him by year of experience of aoldler life, and won hlrn faro. v In the beginning of the' war, then lieu tenant general. Nodiiu went to th front as the commander of th Fifth division of Hiroshima. , At Ping Yang, pareetvlng th weakness of the Chines In th battle In a plafn, h attached the enemy In a "plain around th city before the enemy was able to defend the stronghold. Thl wa effectlv,-nd the Chinese fled pell-mell to ward Yalu. Driving the fugitive "On the pur" of the moment, he forced hi march to 'Wlju, where, under the direction of the commander-in-chief. General Yamagata, he. In conjunction wluh Lieutenant General Katsur (the present premier of Japan), the commander of the Third division of Nagoya, led hi men across th Yalu. Wtill yet th army wa marchjng on, th commander-in-chief wa recalled by th mikado himself, partly on account of hi dtwobedlence, but chiefly on account of his 111 health- And hi duties wers transferred to Nodsu. After the war Nodtu wa promoted to th rank of a general, waa mad th head of the niiddl section of the military adminis tration and a permanent member of the council ct war. HI generalnhlp, however. Is looked upon as somewhat superior to th other two. Although the coinmander-ln-i-l.lef of th Third army is t!U a thing of mystery to the public, yet if General N..i!u atmuld be obliged to assume the position it is iparent that he will be a sort of a field murchal, decolte the r.-irt that Field Mur shal. Yniimata will go to the fr.,i.t and duect th ariiil..- In th field. ' THH LAW'S DELAY, rrer-ratl. f l'saeMrr Sers s .( Obslrnet Jaattea. I Philadelphia Record, The war burning word utter by Judge Cox of th United State) circuit court In his address to th graduating class of Columbia university th other day. "W ar suffering in thl eeuntry," h said, "from an over production ot law there are H.ooo statute mad annually In th United State. w legislate to ur all evils, to remedy pant ones, to pre vent new ona, to top Immorality, and yet every day w ae crime go unpunished and murderer go f r. Th mob, tlrd of th law'a delay, drag out Iu victims to death In th light of flaming jails 'and court house." Th poor suitor I worn out by weary waiting .for hi turn to be heard In courts, th docket of some of whloh tri bunals ar crowded With case three veara old. and th end of Justice ar defeated by ouatory appeal. Th evil ha grown to an. enormity. aPD)ngth foundations af ocUty. It might be taken as presumption on the part of mere laymen to say that h bench and bar of this country bar too long re mained wedded to- practice hoary with age, which In England, whence they were Inherited, have Ion a- since been CoiuIaneA to th juristical garret. Some of our most eminent lawyers and Judge. however, nv .recently expressed themselves ex. aotly to th above afreet' although a corn- mitte or the new. Yot-tr tin after a long period of Incubation, could find no better eura for tha law'a itia t suggest In It report to tha legislature than in creation of tnora enurta. mora trial Judge and mora anDollata divlalona. wi.v. In England on Judge conduct th lltlga- uu ior x,uw,twu people; In New York ther on Jung ror avery 100,00a Th trial of a caso is suii regarded by too mint mem. bers of th bar aa a suns In vhih tha lawyer ar tha player and th judge Is th umpire A former Secretary Root re marked a JJttl whlla ago at a' meeting of hi legal brethren: "W do not address ourselves to th main laauaa: thera in a hundred objection and a acor of obstruc- uon wnere in ta Esguau, court ther 1 one." - . Judg Cox and .JusUo Brewer of tha supreme court eolncld In th . view' that th most fertil ourc of delay I th abuse ot th miscalled right of appeal. A resort to a higher court of appeal is iiot a right at all; It la a privilege to be granted not beeajjn of an erroneous rulino- whih aa not affect th result but because th In- teraata a 4 . . j.. . . mw require. a,-vry man Is entitled to a loir trial to ans dav ia court, not to two day or thre or ten. 1 ne cur of this alms U Imperatively de manded, but many other rhnr. i k. direction of simplicity Of nur nrnnM -will b needed to. free us of th reproach m cumoersome, antiquated and, m It effect, unjust system of Jutic. . , 1 : x , . llK8TIOJr AND AHSWER. f eeret of President Rooaevelt' Popn. xartty and Snceess. . Collleo weeklar. - Wby 1 Mr. Roosevelt not nnlv ana r.t moat useful statesmen but ,1m Mr mn. popular and successful pollUclanT Fw men la American publlo Ufa who ara mn. ,ni In thoir political methods succeed o bril liantly in in gam of politic. Th ex planation is to be found lars-eJv in 'h. preSdenfa, humanity. Ha, Is th acUve. l.l,V,.. V . . ' ' auiiurmuu American on an en larged seal. Ho I not dlfforenfc II 1 only larger. Therefor what-he doe 1 In stinctively understood! and smimvat i thl. average honest American, Th president doe not need to put his ear to'the ground very often, because by merely following hi own nature he follow and lead th country. The Gorman emperor Is a twelfth rate poet It ba been :ald, "but5 becaua ne 1 a poet at all h knock to piece all th first-rat politician 1n th war of potltlcs." POet. In th sense of thu n,mta- tlon, moan little more than .a man with & run aioc or emotion wnicn tnable blra to comprehend without effort th emotions f Other mn. 'There I one Greek word for 'I do' from which we not the word nractt. cat and another Greek word for 'I do from which w get. the word poot , Th two words practical and poetical may mean two subtly different thing In that old and subtle l&niraaa-fl. hut thv InAan 4Ti, it. mm. In English and the same In the Jon's run." 10 respond to general passion and aspira tion, in have th feelings of humanity In all your nerve., a help and not a hin drance to being praotlcal. We sometime speak as if a cold, . calculating gamester were most Jlkely to succeed In tho Intrica cies 01 political - warfare. It 1 not true. Nothing help the president more in. popu larity than the dash ind Ini.ariiv it hia Impulse. lie Write a book, read a book, runa a rancn, work a deputy sheriff, box-in hi ToelitlcAl record in tha (' VnrV Assembly, goes to Cuba, or tills tho preol- aenoy wun lie same ardent reality,, and, therefore, primarily, do th people love htm. , , risusoa ai jsotks. , 'Perdloaria has thanked Secretary Hay for securing hi release, and Secretary Jfay ha thanked France for aiding In th mat ter, but r.o one eeems to think 1( worth whlla to thank RalsoulL F. luipklnson Cmith recently remarked: "If I con tell the who story cf my novl in flv minutes at a dinner table and se cure the undivided attention of my listeners I know that it is good. If I fail to do this my work will ba In vain." General von Trot?-, commander of tho Sixteenth Infantry division of th German army, whq ha Just sailed for German South Africa to take a;harg of th cam paign against the kaiser' rebellious sub jects, th Hereras, Is M year old. 1 Mr. Fairbanks never drank whisky but once, that being when he was thrown from a carriage, and he say. h can tact the tuff yet Ther ore many men who would give a great deal If they could mak on drink of whisky last a long aa that A monument to James Reynolds, who wa better known to pant generations a "Ca- talpa Jim," will be unveiled In- the St, Lawreno cemetery at New Haven, Conn., on July t. Reynold wa th man who principally engineered the expedition in th calling vessel Ca talpa, which released from an Australian penitentiary some thirty and odd year ago a. number. of Irish political, prisoner. Th monument, which will be In the form of a Celtic cross of Barr granite, will bear on It 'fac a likeness of th Cu talpa and a bust of Reynolds, and shamrock will fill In the design. Tlaerc arc Many table waters, but only one t? . 4-V- t - Always the same. , Pure, fparkling, and delicious. ti: p.:caA?.:5Ci c:'J3 C3 . va JAt'iv b. )N STKIJKT, ' y iuii etim 1 ! ii At-i.rv is. tJUTB AK AJiCirc.fT ART. . Shorthand Wrttls Hsrh Older TH I , It Present Votaries. Chicago Inter Ocean. Shorthand writing aji w now know li the verbtlm record of human pch Is generally supposed to be quit a modern art. Tho ordinary book of reference con firm thl Impression.' . They noto th ex istence of system of. abbreviated writing In antiquity, but giv th Inference that thes wer Incapabl of doing what- I now done by anortnana. ' Leon Goudaliier. writing "in Pari Cos mo,' produce evidence that thl Inference la erroneous. Apparently, ho ha tnad a thorough search of ancient literature for allusion to shorthand, and h produces such fact a these: ' At th"church council ot Carthago, A. D. lit eight horthand reporter wr ragu Inriy employed. 6t Augustin nay hi hearer took down hia discoureo In short hand. Bocratea, th church ; historian of th fourth century, say th ajrmom of St. John Chrysostom wer so preserved, Euaebiu. wrlUng a century rUor, iy a theological debat between Molchion and Paul of eomosata wo so recorded. Plu tarch accounu for tha prrvation of an extempore speech by Cato UUoensi In th sain way. But th moat renowned shorthand writer nf ancient time waa Marcus Tulliua Tiro, th slave, freed man and secretary of Cloro th orator. Undoubtedly to hi effort w ow th preservation of tho rhetorical effort which not only drov Catalln Into open rebellion, but which till Insplr In cendiary thought In th mind ot Ameri can schoolboy, especially during tho bas ball season. Henc It would appear that lif In ancient Rom might hav been, about aa strenuous a It 1 now. For, of course, Cicero wa not th only statesman attended by a stenographer, and It .cannot b supposed that the business men Of tha tlm would omit to supply themselves with this assist ance to rapid work,' Thori was, however, an Important difference In social condition then and now which prevent us from at tributing to tho times tha strenuosltjof the. - - ". . ." ' Doyhtles stenographer made mont ex asperating blunder" then as now, pom in taking and In transcribing dictation, j But stenographer then were .chiefly slave. The Roman politician who wished to repudlat an Indiscreet utterance, or tho Roman mer chant who wished to cancel a diatrou price quotation, could imply hav hi stenographer thrown Into th most . f c oeasibl eel pond, and that wa th end ot th matter. ' Furthermore, th social situation does not seem to hav been complicated with fe male sienoarapnnra ana ijycw,4k... . CninOa. WOU". Ituunwiwa. - . , .(..-..iMt' mum dallv la well . Wliat oolal havoo th typewriter girl create, with or without her machine. the, court records of Chicago pear constant, witness. . - , - t.tfa in ajinient Rome, oven in tne.aay of Catolino and Caesar and C3oro, was .n.ntiiiv Vnsnli. .": Rome had st- VUUtyM-H . w - - nographers, hut no female, stenographer and no typewriting machine. ,iwm nao. girls, but no. typewriter girls, 1 : ' " ' riJisnES of run. 1 ... .. . , , nun.Mnn (list out 'SLB.te M1V . . , C of Idle curiosity, don't you tnlnk? , Laura Ino, pusy cun-jpuj. "w 1 never Idle. tumerviu u"c" rha investigation Into th Slooum dl- aster "Was on. .... '' ' . ,. . ; "The hoso, efua ine niuwrn, ww It was a regular sieve." ' . 7 Tt . . .... ji Ar,Anwnrtr tnf,aaf yvnut you m.n ? iilL. asked tho coroner.) .-imaueis'"" '.FAVj,?iL,lu.'v.ValrHat nf- nibntti so you, wer coinpAaliOu; of. th '-n ar n atitan. sir. 1 m in ics cum buslne.M." Cieve.ac Plain jueaier. .1 -, l a 1. a. fntintaP- . tnvl she only W," remarked tho first sales lady. - . ' - .. . . ,,''.,.. ,. 'Well,' repnea tno otnsr, .-tTeryuuns been marked down at that counter, ,you know." Philadelphia Record, . - iiti n in kins mn aarajn I will call thought yo-J said oiir father wa In California?" '' "He is." Houston Poet . I ll P ! It Hogan (calling on next door neighbor)! Ui.iH.no ye've heaJd th' llliKmt, clijleal muBla that' bin 1,-nynatln' fmm nm rlsl donce for th' pasht wake or sot Vv e got wan av thlm mechanical planny players on thClaney (fiercely) On 'thrile, I It Glory bel I only wleht I wor th' Judge! Puck. "K w h?s first trip to ea, said th first sailor, "and when we Were goln' down the bay w worked' off a lot of old yarn on him." : ' ' ' , , "He swallowed them, o' course," ald th te.r- . . . ' ' . - ' .,- yes, dui omy wrayorarjY, n bhuc rough water pretty oon " Phiiaaeipnia Press. j - - - . Patereon Pete I dreamt lost night dat I bad a million dollar. . . r-tacked Gates LMd yer enjoy ltT Paterson Pete Nitl I UJ ued for breach of promise, operated on fur ew- Sendlcltls an' tnenuoned fer do vice r uncy "for I'd even got It counted. Juu, - A CASS) FOH ARBITRATIOX. . The Old Jaekoiilii Hwar-frajncd craft,, All scarred by many a hurtling- ehot, Wltk. sails full set tor Waahlnguin, Has turned her prow ami lonien not. Tha sea is boisterous; fierce drive- the win in spiteful jnood on, c.p and shout; While thunder voiced, the crfmhing tvav.' Against hor sides in fury roll. Two pilot would her course direct 'Twixti Bcylla and Charybdis grim) larn. cmu-i iu hajutl, ha bcaiiiioj .'-A And tiia pned- course oult vlor t tiro. "Ity tho gold ttfrn-.ard route we lt fs . I'll tuke the wbetl " said Grover t'C.l, ' "Slrtenu-to-oRo sIibII be our courvo, ' yuoth William, "1 the wheel will hold." "Unhand that Wheel," puffed th Jersey man, - Thou strenuou footer of the Pl&tte, Th pruliie .schooners on tlie plain And other-schooner a for that, AH amber filled, you may iSlrect; ' But boisterous billows such sn thes Require hands replete with skill; , I'll take th wheel, sir, If you plea." "Beside, iear Bili, you may recall, I have already twice Lcfui, With steady- hand quite oaiw.y .noored The old ship at the White Hoose door; While you, alaokl twice Orove ihe crstt. Unheeding shoals and reira end buoys, To wreck and dnrnsKS past repair; Avast! thou ever strident nolne, And thu while trivlng might snd main, . Heedless alike of friend or brother. Each rain swift blows full hard upon The solar, plexus of the other. Mesnwhlle the sphinx, the smiling sphinx, Client as sprlnKitme verdure btoah. With artful fingers swipes the wheel; but where he'll take the hip who knows? Omaha, CON GARVIN. '.T7. 4ii - 4 v..,.... 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