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10 TnE OMAHA DAILY DEE: SATURDAY. MAY 27, 1903. Tim Omaha Daily Bee. E. ROSE WATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNINC1. TEkMH OF SUBSCRIPTION: Dully Fee (without Sunday), one year.. II imily Bee and Bunday, one year J wj lllumrattd Bee, one year bunday Bee, one year J Tl Saturday Bee, one year Twentieth Century Farmer, one year.. l.W DELIVERED BY CARRIER, pally Bee (without Sunday), per copy.. 2c iaily Bee (without Sunday), per wee...Wc lally Bee (Including Sunday), per week.l.o l.venlng Bee (without Sunday), per week. ia livening Be (including bunday), per week ....l-e Bunds y Be, per copy Complaint of Irregularities In delivery houM be addreMed to City Circulation U tartment. OFFICES. Omaha Th Bee Building. . South Omaha-City Hall building. Twenty fifth and M street. Council Bluff 10 Pearl tret. Chicago-1640 Unity building. New Vork-lSOJ Home Life in, building. Washington 601 Fourteenth tret. CORRESPONDENCE. 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KoscWater, secretary I The Be rub'ishing Company, being duly wrn: ay that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Sunday Be printed during the month of April, lixtt, waa a loiiows 1 81.080 2 81,030 I sa,ito 4..... 28. lOO I SK.IIH 28.10O 7 a,uao 1 80,5!K 1 8O.3S0 W 87.0TU II 38,170 12 X,4M II UM.10O It 80.OOO 13 tfO,MOO it sn.doo 17 2S.3B0 U 2(.a7W U 27,950 20 2. 100 21 2S.3SO 22 80,160 JJ 81,770 24 T. 88.000 26 28,030 26 88,OttO 27 28,180 28 28,300 2 80,100 to aa.ioo Total 88H.420 Les unaold oople 0,783 Net total sales B7U.3T ; Daily average 20,821 ' C C. ROSE WATER, r Secretary. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to ; before me this 1st day of May. W06. (Seal M. B. HUNUATE. Notary Public. WUE.V OUT OF TOWN. Subscribers leaving tbe city tem porarily should have The Bee nailed to tneiu. It 1 better than dally letter froan home. Ad dress will be chauited a often a requested. A triangular verbal duel betweeu Tibbies, Beige aud Bryuu will npw be lu order. ' I Another Ohio bank has failed, and Cassle Chadwlck In Jail, where she can not be blamed.' CAS DO WITHOUT OCR OOODS. According to a dispatch from Berlin It Is the opinion of some of the Ormnu manufacturers and. merchants that they can do without American goods and that consequently any tariff arrangements which may be made on the part of this country antagonistic' to German trade will make no particular difference to that country. In other words.' there Is ac cording to that Idea no Apprehension In regard to the effect which a tariff war might have upon the commercial rela tions lettfeen the two countries. It might make some trade disturbance, and possibly might to some extent Interfere with the existing friendly relations, but It by no means follows that it would absolutely disrupt the cordial relations that now subsist beween the United States and the German empire. Those friendly relations are of the most Im portant character and we can think of nothing that should Impair or interfere with them. In the meanwhile the fact that Ger many has adopted n tariff policy which is not altogether friendly to the United States naturally raises the question as to what the duty Of this government Is in the matter. Are we to submit quietly to the German discrimination or to take a position antagonistic to it? The ques tion Is one of very great importance in its bearing upon our future relations not only with Germany, but with every country of Europe with which we have commercial interests. We have got to determine sooner or later Just what our relations will be with the commercial countries of the old world and this tilt with Germany is bringing this issue more than ever conspicuously to the froat. The American policy is well estab lished. It means the protection of our home industries and our home labor. It is a policy in which we lose sight of ab solutely everything that doeg not contrib- tite to the benefit and advantage of our own people and that idea we shall al ways adhere to, because it is purely nnd strictly American. So that when the Germans or nny other foreign people come to the conclu slon that they can do without American goods and take a position hostile to our trade, we simply say to them that we have no favors to ask of them and we will permit them to take their own course. If Germany or any other coun try does not care to deal with us on a fair basis that is its affair. We want trade and we want it on a fair basis. Any country that is not willing to ac cede to this must not expect, to have any favor shown it by the United States. ' Despite the freezing weather in Iowa, Secretary Wilson will hardly remove the Ilawkeye state from the official "corn elt." x The next appeal of the water board to the courts should be for a mandamus to compel the appraisers to bring in '.heir report. . In declaring In favor of a union of all rresbytedan . bodies the president no floruit feela that he has found the nucleus of at least one "good" merger. consolidate city and county govern ments already Inaugurated can be car ried and when such consolidations as are feasible may be consummated. This much, however, Is certain, that the Judi cial machinery of the county will remain practically unchanged, and that to take care of the courts with the closely allied offices of the district clerk and the sheriff will require some kind of a court house, find that the present build ing is not fully adapted even for housing the courts alone. Without championing any pet plan The Be would suggest that a thorough discussion will afford a means of get ting a variety of advice and ideas, first, as to what can be done, and, second, as to whether the time Is ripe to do any thing at all. On the answer to the first question must depend largely the an swer to the second. At all events, the taxpayers of the county ought to know before they sanction any plan Just what the probable expense will be and what they will hove for their money In case they consent to its expenditure: The paper on commercial college ad vertising presented to the meeting of the Central Commercial Teachers' associa tion, in session in this city, should be read and studied by every live business man. It tells how our great commercial colleges in Omaha have been built up and strengthened by careful and per sistent use of newspaper space for pub licity purposes. The story of the suc cessful commercial college buttressed by newspaper advertising can be repeated for any other meritorious enterprise em-, ploying the same means adnpted to its particular needs. The order restraining the board of directors from putting the Equitable Llfo Assurance society's "nmtunllzntlon" plan in force is binding only until the rights of the interested parties can be settled by the courts, but as the case will probably be drawn out as long as lawyers can make money out of it, the "mutuallzatlon" plan may be considered tabled for a while at least. Preparations are under way for the annual encampment of the Omaha High school cadets. There ought to le plenty of suitable spots for pitching camp within marching distance of Omaha that would obviate the necessity of making an encampment a side-show for some railroad to run Its excursion trains to. ' the way that old Father Time is , wielding his scythe so actively in Omaha Just now Is a reminder that his harvest 'time has do definte relation to the seasons ;. Mr. Tibbies accuses Colonel Bryan of breaking a political compact with him. 'This is the most serious charge yet laid t tho door of the great democratic ieader. ' Bituminous coal mlue owners are to form, an association. The achievements of the anthracite coal combine form too tempting an example for them to neglect , Governor Deueen did not attend the formal opening of the new bridge at Thebes, but he would go further than thot to find a bridge over the Chicago troubles. Addlcka declares that when he "lets ( go" of Delaware polities the state will go democratic. The penalty may be severe, but It will doubtless have to be paid some day. Mayor Weaver,, was born In England. This timely notice is served to prevent ny presidential "booms" which might follow his attack on the Philadelphia "or Japanese statesmen who predict a bright commercial future for their coun try should remember that this very pros pect ia what causes European fear of "the yellow peril." COyTESTIOX ASTO BATTLESHIPS The Question as to whether the govern meut should continue to add battleships to the navy is one that seems to divide sentiment among those who are sup posed to be .most competent u their Judgment as to what should be done in the upbuilding of our naval power. It is a familiar fact that some of the most prominent men in congress who have given particular study to naval affairs take the position that It is a mistake to build battleships, urging that the true policy is to construct rapid armored cruisers, which if is claimed ore far more effective as fighting vessels than battleships. This view was urged by Senator Hall and others in the last congress and it Is held by some of. our naval officers, though probably most of them incline to the opinion, as Indicated in the report and recommendation of the naval bu reau, that the true policy of the govern ment in the matter of naval increase is to add to the number of battleships. There Is no doubt that this is the view of Admiral Deweyvwho has repeatedly said that no navy can be really formida ble that has not a sufficient number of those great and formidable vessels of wor which are looked upon to not only be irresistible against attack, but to be also the most formidable as an ag gressive force. This view in regard to battleships Is entertained by President Roosevelt and the present secretary of the navy, though necessarily the familiarity with the lat ter is somewhat immature and must be presumed to be derived largely from communication with the naval officers with whom he has come in contact. Un doubtedly the most potent Influence in tho matter Is the opinion of Admiral Dewey, and that seems to be most de cidedly In favor of the battleship. The coming engagement between the Rus sian and Japonese fleets will have a most Important and probably a decisive Influence in determining the value of the respective classes of warships in actual battle and may go far to decide the fu ture course of the maritime nations as to the character of their navies. This will not be the least significant of the ques tlons which the Impending conflict in the Asiatic waters will decide. Messrs. Gaynor and Greene are still unsuccessful In their attempt to deter mine the status of the extradition treaty between the United States and Canada, but they certainly cannot object to com ing home localise of the weather. The railroads of Nebraska are entitled to a square deal in the mutter of taxa tlon, but no more of a square deal than are the other property owners who main tain no expensive tax bureaus to beat down their assessments. Perhaps the real reason why Philadel phla does not want to have the liberty bell sent to Portland is because it de sires to ring it once more when it shall have achieved independence of Its pres ent city council. Des Moines has no auditorium build lng to compare with Omaha's, but Des Moines captures the next Presbyterlau general assembly just the. same. Is it not time for Omaha to get busy? It Is a little early to kill off the corn crop on account of the protracted low temperature. King Corn has fre quently demonstrated his ability to make up for lost time nnder July and August skies. Not a tingle member of the faculty of the new Btate Normal school has been drawn out of the Omaha public school staff, lite explanation, however, is not thitt Omaha hat no eligible educators, but that a cull of the State Normal board would hardly be regarded a promotion. 'It is now. Intimated that Jim Hill's ' Great Northern oxbow will be to built as to come Into Omaha with a view to getting aorat of the local business while the through traffic Is sent around the back door without stopping. ' If thla U tha true plan, how it tiitaid matters Is not vUlbl to tho naked tyo. . Let tho Referee Speak. Chicago News. . It Is not yet plnin whether the parllamen tary rules under which sessions of the British Parliament are conducted are those of the marquis of Queensberry or the Lon don prize ring. Sneetneaa Iconic Drawn Ont. . Washington Post. The Elklns committee has completed the work of taking- testimony -in the railway rat case, but it will probably take all next winter to complete the presentation of the arguments to the senate Jury. WHAT CAN H'E DO WITH COURT HOUSEt The Real Estate exchange baa taken up the subject of remodeling or recon structing the county court house with a view to providing more adequately for the needs of the offices in which the county's business la transacted. No one disputes that at the time It was erected the preseut court bouse was a credit to the city, aud more, that it is still terv log its, purpose fairly well so far at ita facilities permit. At the same time, no one familiar with existing conditions will dispute that the buildlug has been out grown and must be enlarged, or replaced. In the course of a few years at the most. Vurloua schemes to this end have been proposed from" time to time to tunnel from the street aud Install elevutors, to build additions or wings ou one side or the other, aud to erect an entirely new buildlug at the street level to take the place of the present structure but none of them has been pressed for accept ance or rejection by the people. Severul plans are ald to be now Incubating to solve the court house problem, which must le grappled with very soon. The chief difficulty lies In the uncer taint at to how far tho movement to after hi death or th patriotic searcher of 100 year later?" Scrappy Tendencies of Die Wli. Chicago Chronicle. Monday night's row In the House of Com mon only serve to show that one legisla tive body Is very much like another when the honorable gentlemen composing It work themselves up to a state of partisan ex citement. It In not likely that the House of Commons will ever rival the French Chamber of Deputies or the Hungarian Diet In the variety and energy of Its manifes tations, but we may always look for a cer tain degree of ohstreperousness when polit ical feeling runs high. COXVESIESCES FOR TRAVELERS. Comforts aad Lnmrles Supplied, and Room for More. Chicago Tribune. A transcontinental railway hns provided its through trains with a special news serv ice. Twice a day bulletins giving the Im portant events of the world are posted In the library and observation cars. Travel ers will hear as soon as anybody the result of the Rojestvensky-Togo fight If It ever comes off. They will no more be in the world but not of It, while crossing the alkali region and the Rocky mountains. An Illinois road has Introduced an all night buffet service. Passenger who get on late will no longer have to go to bed thirsty or hungry. Persons who cannot go to sleep with an empty stomach may get remedies for Insomnia. Those who like a late supper merely because thev like It will have a place to spend their money. Most of the comforts and all the luxuries of railway travel are supplied, originally at least, to meet the demands of long hauls. The man who rides from the cltv to a suburb four or five mile out wants only a eat. Those who have to ride all night want beds, and the sleeper was Invented for them. Many who are traveling for more than a few hours want good meals, and the diner was Invented for them. Many who have to ride three or four days or a week want and aro willing to pay for as many comforts and luxuries as they can get. For them the stateroom was Invented. The longer the run the more demand upon tho railway. American railroad men have always been quick to imitate one another In adopting any plan or device that Increased their passengers' convenience and the company's business. If they would contrive a satis factory method of ventilating cars and put on sleepers with large berths It would be possible to live In some trains almost as pleasantly as at home. While railways are making other improvements they should not forget these two most desirable ones. FREAKS OF TOM LAWSOX. The Ideal Officeholder. Chicago Inter Ocean. There can be no longer any doubt con cerning the wonderful staying qualities of Premier Balfour. He stays and stays and stays, regardless of the hints he is receiv ing daily that It Is time for him to go. (ilad Hand Await Him. Pittsburg Dispatch. There is reason to believe thnt President Roosevelt will receive a hearty ' welcome when he mingle among the people of the south. They cheered him when he wa the second officer of an untried regiment of volunteer cavalry with all the warmth of their nature, 'There Is no reason why they should have changed their view. Boston' Financial Cnre-AH Prescrib ing (or Kansas. Kansas City Journal. It Is to be fearjd that a distinct chill of disappointment will run up and down the nation's splnnl column when Mr. Thomas W. Lawson unfolds his scheme to crush the trusts, or the "system," as he calls it, to the people of Kansas In July. His plan, as briefly outlined In the press dis patches, Is to issue a call on a certain day to the people to withdraw their deposits from the savings banks. This, he says, will crush the "system." How this wllj crush the system is slightly vague and misty to the average mind. If by the "system" Mr. Lawson means merely the stock gamblers, all of them might be crushed today and as many more would take their places tomorrow. If the system is taken to include the great trusts which control the markets of the country and dictate the price of the necessities of life, the people may withdraw their money from the banks, but they cannot avoid pay. lng a goodly portion Of it to the trusts just the same.. .The price of beef will not drop an inch though the financial heavens fall. The water may be squeeied out of stocks until they are as dry as a bone, and in dividual stockholders may be ruined which would doubtless please Mr. Lawson Immensely in respect to a few of his former associates but the country will still be in the grip of the octopus. We sadly fear that Mr. Lawson will have to select a heavier bat If ho expects to "strike off the fetters that are almost permanently riveted on American necks." The remedy he proposes seems at first glance so woefully inadequate that we feel like suing him for damages for keeping us in raging fever of expectation for nearly a year only to dash our hopes to the ground. , The only thing reasonably certain about Mr. Lawson' remedy is that it will offer a premium to burglars, and it might bring on a panic that would make all former financial crises look like three plugged dimes. But there Is no occasion as yet to take to the cyclone cellars. The Ameri can people are enthusiastic and full of fads in many ways, but when it comes to Investments" and matters of the pocket- book, they are sane, sound and conserva tive. Mr. Lawson may get an enthusiastic greeting in Kansas, but he won't get the KansanB to help him to wreak vengeance on the stock gamblers at the risk of ruin ing themselves. Kansas is too prosperous to be anarchistic Just now. omclul IJenlnl. Chicago Chronicle. Japan "officially" denies that there is any intention to kidnap the emperor of Corea and take him to Tokio for safekeeping. If, therefore, it turns out some morning that hi Corean majesty has been quietly and unobtrusively hustled aboard a Japa nese warship we may be sure that the proceedings will be entirely unofficial. It will be remembered that Admiral Sir Joseph Porter, K. C. B., made a specialty Of these fine yet well marked distinctions between official and unofficial proceedings, and the Japanese, being close student of Occidental methods, have no doubt been profiting by his illustrious example. has We The Age of Wild Rash. Washington Post. -We no longer tolerate slowness. It become one of the sin to be avoided. do not write, because the telephone put us Into instant communication with the distant friend. We do not walk, because we can save time by hurrying along In the electric car. We do not spend time in mental In trospection, because while we are absorbed in thought the crowd 1 rushing by and leaving us In the rear. In other words, the philosopher Is now almost extinct. The man who does not hustle is not only the excep tlon to the rule, but he Is soon apt to be come an object of his neighbor's pity. If he does not help himself he will soon have to be helped. FOR M'Xl'RV? Myaterjr of Paul June. Harper's Weekly. A curious bit of history concerning Paul Jones is brought to lit lit by a corre spondent apropos of General Horace Por ter' recent discovery n Paris of the old admiral body. When Paul June died In Paris, in 17D2, aay the e-oriesioiident, Jones' mother was still living in her native village of Klrkbeun, near Dumfries, Scot land, and about a year later, at her request and expense, his body was shipped there, burled in the kirk yard and hi grave marked by a simple slab carved with his real name John Paul. Who was deceived, wonder the correspondent, "the mother receiving th body of her son a few month AMERICAN HEMANDS New Comfort Calculated to Promote the Traveling; Habit. Cleveland Loader. On Borne of the transatlantic steamers the advent of wireless telegraphy has made possible the publication of a daily news paper, so that the passengers are never for twenty-four hour out of touch with the world, or at least with th greater event occurring therein. It is doubtful whether this is desirable from the view point of health and real comfort, because a sea voyage can only be recuperative to Its full extent If the cares of the land are left behind completely, and a week, more or less, of freedom from dally worries of business or domestic life I secured. Americans, however, demand the ulti mate In convenience of travel, and no sooner wa the announcement of the ocean newspaper made than a transcontinental railway followed suit and advertised that on its overland train there should be not only dlurn.il, but more frequent, bulletins of tho new of the day, delivered to the passenger as the train swept east or west on Its Journey between our bounding oceans. Another Innovation Introduced by a road in Illinois, according to a contemporary In that state, is the "meals all night" buffet car. On the road In question, no matter what hour a passenger board the train, wakes from hi (lumber, or feels the gnaw ing of appetite, ha can get something to eat hot, cold or medium, a fancy and the chef decide and if troubled with In somnia can have a brightly lighted, com fortable place to alt and read, no matter what the hour of th night may be. ,We are told that the time is not far distant when it will be perfectly feasible for any occupant of a flrst-clnss or limited express to telephone from his berth or stateroom to ,ny exchange, In any larr city, in the union. All these things are spoken of In the railway and steamship advertisement as "luxuries." As has been pointed out by un American humorist, a aoon as we use a luxury it becomes a neces sity. There Is no telling, therefore, 1'hst will be demanded of railway companies and steamship within the next generation. This we d.i know, that whatever demand 1 made by the traveling public will be met by the companies, because, no matter what may be nld a to freight there 1 no question that competition In the transporta tion of passenger 1 keen, alert and enterprising. OTHER LANDS THAI OVRS. Th statistic of emigration and Immigra tion for the fnlted Kingdom for 19m have Just been published by Ihe British Board of Trade. They show that th total passenger movement outward was 463,877 to non-European countries and 718.MO to European coun tries, and Inward 241.834 from non-European countries and 802,M from European coun tries. The net balance outward was 127, S92. During the year 271.4.15 British and Irish person loft Oreat Britain for non European countries, as compared with 2M, 950 In 190J and 205.662 In 1902. Th foreigner numbered 174,354, against 181.639 In 1903 and 174.291 In 1902. Of the total number of native emigrants English passengers formed 68 per cent, Scotch 14 per cent and Irish 21 per cent as against 68, 14 and 18 per cent respec tively in the preceding year. Of th total emigration 152.109, pr 84 per cent, went to places within the British empire, Including 91,684 to British North America, and 32 278 to British South Africa. The remaining 301,708, or 6il per cent, went to various countries. Including 291.945 to the Vnlted States. Com pared With 1903, this Is an Increase of 40,004 passenger to the United States, but a de crease of 7,898 to British North America, and of 30.640 to South Africa. Of the British and Irish emigrants, 119,604. or 44 per cent, wont to places within the British emrlre, 28 per cent going to British North America, and 10 per cent to British South Africa, and the remainder to other British colonies and possessions. Of those going to foreign coun tries nearly the whole number came to the United Stutes. The number of British and Irish emigrants to South Africa wa only 26,818. as compared with 60.206 In 1903, and 43,206 In 1902. The number who proceeded to British North America, on the other hand, reached 69.CR1, as compared with 69,652 In 1903, a number Itself In excess of any pre vious figures. A considerable increase Is also observable In the number who came to the Uhited Sthte those being 146,413 In 1904, as compared with 123.6G3 In 19u3. England's trawling Industry was brought into unusually conspicuous attention a whlln ago by the wild shooting of Rojestvonsky' ships off the Dogger bank. It Is an Import ant Industry, comprising at least half of the nation's fisheries, and It is now conducted by costly vessels with all sorts of equip ment, which patrol the sea constantly be tween Hull and Norway coasts. They carry refrigerating plants, and can remain at sea for weeks at a time. The smaller vessels, which have no refrigerating arrangements of their own, turn over their respective catches to the larger vessels at frequent In terval and so remain at sea for months to gether. Statistics of production show that as a result of the Introduction of steam vessel and Improved equipments Into the business tho catch has doubled several times in tne last generation, but there Is always a market for whatever come In. So far the waters show no signs of being "fished out," though the work there ha been going on so long, and of late with such an immensely Increased output. ii is commonly supposed that, except among a few savage tribes, systematic human sacrifice disappeared long ago from India. During the governor-generalship of liora Hartiinge a special act was passed to enable the government to stamp out this custom among the aboriginal Khnnds and he boasted that human sacrifice was practically suppressed during his term of office. Nevertheless, a peculiarly atrocious case was reported recently, but a sapient native Jury In Bengal declined to bring in a verdict of murder on the ground that the victim might have consented to his own immolation. And now the Indian mail brings news of what look like another case. A petty chief In Orlssa is said to have vowed to make offerings of human blood -if his wife recovered from an at tack of smallpox. She did recover, and at the same time a number of men mys teriously disappeared, who were reported killed by tigers. There is a rumor, how ever, that they were sacrificed by the chief, and an official Inquiry has been or dered Into the matter. Ritual murder com mltted In the performance of a vow Is thought to be the explanation of many ap parontly motiveless crimes. Sir Alfred Lyall, In a recent paper, mentions, as an example of the sacrifice of a willing vic tim, the story of the commander of an army who turned the tide of battle by hav ing himself beheaded In front of hi troops, in order to propitiate the god of war. He suggests that this is the only in stance on record of a general who won an action by losing his head at a critical mo ment. The ravage of the plague In India con tinue to Increase. In the last week of March 67,702 deaths and 65,789 cases were reported, and no one suppose that these figures represent the whole truth, as a complete record is, for various reasons, al most Impossible. During the preceding week more than 5,000 death were re ported. Even In Calcutta, according to the latest returns, the plague is claiming be tween 700 and 800 victims a week. In 1903 the total number of death from this ter rible disease exceeded 850,000, and last year it was swelled to 1,040.000. What It will be this year nobody ha ventured to guess. More than 350.000 of last year's deaths oc curred In the Punjab, which hns a popula tion of only 20,000,000, and which is one of the most Important recruiting grounds for the native army. More than two-thirds of this mortality occurred within less than three months. The plague statistics are published from week to week, and it is only when the totals are added up that the extent of the visitation 1 fully re alised. POLITICAL DRIFT. Philadelphia's mayor I getting a reputa tion a a real reformer. Alderman Foley of Boston wants to run for mayor on his achievements as father of thirteen children. A letter of thanks written by Theodore Roosevelt In 1S81, when first nominated for the state legislature, was old to an auto graph collector In New York for 116.50. The lot of the Phllndelphla alderman is not a happy one Just now. Most of them have police bodyguards when abroad In daylight to prevent them getting what Is their due. Justice Warren B. Hooker of New Tork so far declines to hood tiumeroua Influential hint to resign In order to avoid a special session of the legislature necessary to throw him out of his Job. Mayor McClellan of New Tork accepted th challenge of opponents who tried to "put him In a hole" by securing the pas sage of a bill raising the wages of 10,000 street sweeper. A veto put the scheme to sleOi. The announcement conies from tho capi tal of Pennsylvania that the new capltol building will be completed for the amount appropriated, 14,600,000, and within the time limit. This is not the only gas leak in the Keystone state. Governor Douglas of Massachusetts is not particular about a second term of office, but intimates that If the opposition attempts to freeae him out he will tap his leather wallet and show them a trick or two in the game. Governor Hoch of Kansas is now ac claimed the poet of state executives. He has Issued a Memorial day proclamation which local admirers say "teem with the fragrance of May flowers and la made Joyful by the songs of varl-colored birds." Jim Bayse, a California democrat who vowed a quarter of a century ago that he would remain unshorn for life If the re publicans won In the pending campaign, died at Maryaville the other day, and was burled with the honor of hi accumulated hair. It is said that James R. Garfield, commis sioner of corporations, will be a camlldnte for the republican nomination to congress from Cleveland next year, uk there is a determination not to re-elect Congressman BelUler. Mr. Garfield has been popular in hi home town. A political cataclysm was narrowly averted In New York the other day. Gov ernor Hlggins called on Senator riott by appointment. A uniformed servitor told the senator that .Mr.. McGinnls wished to seo him. The senator was too busy to see McGinnls. Fortunately, the hotel clerk dis covered the blunder in time and announced the visitor's proper name. It waa a trifling mistake, but big In its possibilities for trouble. fifty Ycsrs lha Standard CONSTRUCTIVE PERIOD OF MAN A Compilation Calculated to Chloro form the , Oalerlan Theory. The April Popular Science Monthly con tains an article by Pror. Edwin G. Dexter criticising the assumption of Dr. Osier that "man's constructive period reaches Its cli max and begins to decline by the age of 40 years." Dr. Dexter reached his con clusions by an elaboration of the method first adopted hy a writer in the Chronicle to demonstrate from tho data obtainable from "Who's Who" that a comparatively small number of men make their mark In the world before reaching the age of 40. In order to study the subject thoroughly, Dr. Dexter made a careful tabulation of "Who's Who" and secured the following results: Median Age Pet. of Group, Below 40 in l rs. vrs. of Age. mm wssm Made from pure cream of tartar derived from grapes period of most "effective, moving, vitalis es work.' "Although these facts cannot be taken as disproving Dr. Osier' contention, since, at hns been said, a considerable number of the older men may have completed their Important work at an early age, still it would seem to throw some sorlou doubts upon the truth of his generalization. At least the figures show that in a group of arbitrarily limited extent, i. e., the sis of 'Who' Who," the young man In compe tition for a place Is but a one-to-five shot." San Francisco Chronicle. MIHTIIFIL REM Alt KS, some plac a s;tne and Oolllfer I wish I knew of where 1 could go and spend senxiuie rourtn or juiy. Gosch Try some place in Great Britain. Chicago Tribune. , Weary Willie Dl paper set dat ver kin tell be do burs, at de toot of a tree how old It Is. Frayed Freddie Huh! I guess do man dat wrote dat wuxn't never up a tree under dem circumstances. Dat sin t no way ter tell a dog's age. Philadelphia Press. ou Americans don't belong to the no bility," said tho slightly supercilious for eigner. ' No," answered Mr. Cumrox, "but If our girls keep on marrying abroad, the nobility will eventually belong to us." Washington Star. Judge Have you anything to say before I paNM sentence upon you? Bank Wrecker Yes. Don't the rules al low you to take out time from my sentence equal to the length of that miserable speectt my lawyer made? Cleveland Loader. "Are you going to Europe this summer?" "I don't know," answered Mrs. Cumrox. "Going to Europe Isn't whut It used to be, you know. When a man travels now a lot of people turn up their noses and wonder whether n grand mrv Is alter him." Boston i raiiMcripi. Hli-ks HJenks has a wonderful Intellect. hasn't he? W icks Yes. Whenever he has n cold he can always figure out Just where and when he got it. Somervllle Journal, Miss Goodley Bess says she' ready to make up If you are. Miss Cutting Toll her I'd bo ready to make up, too, If I hnd a complexion as muddy as hers. Philadelphia ledger. Reggie If you refuse me I shall follow you to the ends of tho earth. Gladys Goodness, are you a hook agent or an Insurance man? New York New. No. In Profession. Group. Actor 64 Artist 2 Author 61!8 Business man .... 2i Clergyman 655 College professor. 1,090 Congressman 446 Editor 609 Educator 1n8 Engineer 2M Financier 215 Inventor 26 Law ver 857 Librarian 362 Physician 640 Musician Ill Sailor lt'3 Scientist 146 Soldier 2i Statesman 203 6.9S3 Av. 64 Av. 16.00 'The thing which must strike one most forcibly in any inspection of the table la the comparatively few men under 40 years of age. Of the 6.983 men, the median age Is 64 years, while hut 1.118, or loss than one In six, were below the age of 40 years. Stated In other words, this means that out of a group of nearly 7,000 eminent men, but 16 per cent wore within Dr. Osier's Upon Just what food the Japanese oldler do their marvelou fighting and the exact method of it preparation and preservation can be learned from a letter which appear in London Truth. The regular ration. It uv consists of rice and dried fish. Th rice is boiled until quite thick and glutinous, Next it Is placed on a ceramic slab, rolled out. and cut Into squares. The square are then placed In the un to dry and often turned. When hard a sea biscuit and greatly reduced In weight they can be stored. A certain number are allowed each day to the soldier. All he ha to do is to break up a square in boiling water and to add the dried fish. In a few minute he ha what seem to him a deltclouB thick soup. If he cannot procure boiling water he sim ply cats hi rice cake dry. In the fruit sea son he ubstitutes fruit, when he can ob tain It. for the fish. According to the tamu authority, the Japanese soldier has muscle like whipcords, I a sure hot and has an eve for landmark and a memory for lo cality. He can do with three hours of sleep In a day, he is naturally cleanly, obey san ltary Instruction with willingness and In telllgence, 1 ardently patriotic, hold hi life cheap and run up hill like a goat. He cost the Japanese government 10 cent day and think h,tmself well treated and well off. From all this one can learn some thing about the Japanese soldier, but the tuggeMlon that It give valuable hints a to the best way to feed white soldiers is non sense. To thrive on a diet like that I pos sible only for those whose ancestor hav lived in much the same way for counties generations. llrlnu the Wanderer Untk, New York Tribune. Perhaps when Mr. Bryan goe abroad he may run aeros our Wandering Watterson and prevail upon him to return In time for the campaign of 1908. A presidential cam paign without Mr. Watterson to furnish music for the democratic procession a It march.' to it familiar rendezvous, "an open slaughter house," would be lacking In DlcturoQuenesa. , 48 44 64 63 69 47 63 47 64 65 62 67 60 66 44 69 44 63 65 20.3 14.6 19.4 2.5 6.6 22.0 14.6 20.0 21.8 9.8 6.6 0.0 6.6 :2.6 11.0 33.3 6.0 31.3 8 8.0 OXLY MOTHER KNOWS. Baltimore Sun. Only a kiss on the baby's fnce, Only a kiss with a mother grace, So simple a thing that the sunbeams laughed And tli- Ives ha-hahed from where they quaffed. Only a kiss, but tho face was fair. And nobody knew what love was there Nobody knew hut mother. Only a word to a mother's Joy, Only a word to her parting boy. And the changing of the lights on the win dow shone As her boy went out in the world alone, only a word from a mother brave. 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