Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, July 24, 1905, Page 4, Image 4
TIIH OMAHA DAILY I1KE; MONDAY, JULY 24. 1003. The Omaha Daily Bee. E. R08EWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Re (without Similar), one year.. $4 00 t'ally Ie and Sunday, one jrear 00 Illustrated Bee. one vear IW Punnay Up, on year .. )M Saturday n-, nna year 1 M Twentieth Onturjr Karmer, ona year.... 100 DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Tally Bee (wltboi)t Sunday), per copy.... to Dally Bee (without Bundar). per week...lSc llly Bee (Including Sunday), per week..J7o Evening Bee (without Sunday), pr week 7o Evening Bee (Including Sunday), per week Uo Sunday Ree, per copy o Complaints of irregularities In delivery should hi addressed to City Circulation de partment. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. flouth Omaha City Hall Building, Twen-ty-fifth and M streets. Council Bluffs II) Peart street, i Clilrago-li I'nlty Building. New York lirf Home Lift Insurance Building. Washington G01 Fourteenth street. CORRESPONDENCE. . Communications relating- to news and edi torial matter ahould he addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. . REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, fa) able to The Bee Publishing Company. nly 2-eent atampa received In payment of mall areminra. I'prmnal cheeks, except on Omnha or eastern exchanges, not accepted. THK FEE FUBLISHINO COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.: C. C. P.neewnter, secretarr f The Bee rulillfliln ; Companv, being duly sworn, ants tint the actual number ot full and complete cnpla of The Dally, Morning. . Evening find Sunday Bee printed during the month of June. 19uo. was as follows: 1. ...... .... 2u,uno it irooo . :.oo M sa.18 I..., 111.140 II OT.BOO 4 KU.iiBO 19 , I ro.nno to it.7so vn.iKio n ,oo T SI.880 n 2O.000 I an.noo 23 ao,4io I... HO. 150 14 81,300 lo aa.aio 8ojMo II 20.5OO M gt,730 II... S9.T10 n 8.78( it rc,7 M ao.Too 14 SM,7tlO 8,750 16..-. 8fl.0O (0 KO.700 Total . Less unsold copies ..BO4XV0 Net total salis BtM.HM Dally average (,843 C, C. BOSEWATEH, Secretary. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 7th day of July, 1. . (Seal.) M. B. H UNGATE. ' Notary Public. WHEN Ol'T OF TOWH, gabaerltera leaving; the city tem- porarlly ahonld kai The Be mailed to them. It is better thaa dally letter froaa koaa. Ad dreaa -rill be ebaaged ae often as reqaeated. There will be no recount after the voting machines shall hare been in stalled. Thnt Incrensed Union Pacific dividend hould fully justify that Increased Union Pacific assessment. -' i One of the Interior Nebraska towns (masts that It has no "end sent hogs." It bas no street ears, either. Those Tontanelle club olltlcnl slate makers evidently believe In doing busi ness on the installment plan. 4 .When Rclp lmndy rake., his millions out of that gold mine he should be in educed to come back to Omnha to invest 5 them In mills and factories. - As an offset to the shortage of Russian gf-ln it may be recalled that there will 'not be as many to feed aa last year, while Japan is boarding a few. Why not pass an ordinance requiring the street rnilway company to provide every passenger with an end seat. That , would put an end to the snoutrage. The man who threw the bomb at the sultan of Turkey should have served an apprenticeship in Russia before going to a place where failures are always fatal. The formation of . the Japanese army in Manchuria is said to resemble n scythe.' which shows that the Caucasian emblem of death is not unknown to the Islanders. With the memory of the forty-five tons of dynamite exploded Saturday at Ports mouth, the peace plenipotentiaries are expected to feel at home in the summer meeting place. Attorney General Moody has taken the public Into his confidence and the pub lic bow knows what It believed all along. The court must convict the packers or they will not be punished. The British are said to dislike the in come! tax. They might borrow a prece dent from the United States supreme court In exchange for the many Ameri can courts have borrowed from England. The next important question to be de cided is whether It Was the boilers or the magftslna which was outof order on the Bennington. That something was wrong Is certain and the blame should be placed wher tt belongs. Commissioner McVann ha won three Straight flRhts for the Omaha Jobbers within the lust ten days and he la fairly entitled to become a knight of Ak-Sar-Ben, providing he is willing to stand the usual head tax. It Is officially announced that It was ot the check of Mr. Hyde which paid Mr. Jordan's debt to the Mercantile Trust company, but the denial would have bee more Interesting had It told who signed the check. The passenger departments of the Jim mil railroads have already added to their advertising literature a map show ing the Ashland cut off In dotted lines as part of their astem. That ought to settle It beyoud caviL The Union Pacific U protesting before the State Board of Equalisation that all property In Nebraska Is under-assessed for taxation, except its own. Those Union raclfic tax bureaucrats nave to do ssttcsthuig to earn their mo Ley. the crop Rrronr qumtios. Settlement of the crop report Question is still a matter of concern to those in terested and it 1 said that the plan of the secretary of agriculture in regard to It Is not entirely satisfactory. Accord ing to reports from Washington the sec retary's declaration that hereafter If ac cusations are made against the crop re porting they must be directed agalnRt him or Uj assistant secretary, since the present policy is not to allow any other person access to information that might be used in stock Jobbing, is not regarded as going to the root of the matter. It la pointed out that if the work is reduced in its scope to such size that two men can handle it, In its final makeup, it will lack the basis upon which valued results rest It is suggested that secrecy should be entirely removed and all the crop re turns be made public just as fast as the department receives them. This would leave their interpretation, It is urged, to private agencies and private individuals; there would no longer be any commercial value in the secret which the department was guarding. On the other band, it is said that the objection to giving Immediate publicity to everything, that comes In is that the public would not understand the allow ances which it is necessary to make for certain reporters. Very plausible reasons are presented in support ot this view. Whether or Dot it would be wise for the Department of Agriculture to give out its information in regard to the crops immediately after receiving It Is mani festly a debatable question and we will not venture an opinion regarding It. What the- situation requires is that all the advices given but by the government regarding the crops, whether immedi ately or under the system now pursued, shall carry with them the assurance that they are the result of the most careful Inquiry and can be depended upon. That, unfortunately, has not hitherto been the case, as recent developments conclu sively show. The country has been get ting reports that were not 'reliable and in consequence there has been created a general feeling of distrust which recent revelations have intensified. The task of the tlepartment is to restore confidence in its work in this particular and it will take time and care to do this. It Is grati fying to note thnt the secretary of agri culture most fully realizes what Is de manded and is making every effort to meet the requirements of the situation. That he will accomplish what he alms at Is not to be doubted, for unquestionably a practicable way can be found to make the crop reports as trustworthy as It is In the ability of the department to have them, absolute accuracy being admit tedly impossible. The fact that there hos been aroused as to this matter a gen eral interest, not less marked among pro ducers than among the dealers in agri cultural products, gives assurance that in future the government crop reports will be more reliable than they have TBS COURT HOUSE PROBLEM. V It Is conceded on all hands that Doug las county1 has outgrown its court house, for years the structure has been ut terly Inadequate to accommodate the judicial and administrative branches of county government. - The problem that confronts the Board of County Commissioners Is perplexing. From the architectural point of view the Douglas comity court house is al most faultless in its exterior design, but owing to its elevation by reason of the heuvy gxade on Farnnm street its in terior Is difficult of access, and owing to Its peculiar construction . deficient In light and ventilation. On the other hand, the building is absolutely fire proof and the walls are just as sound as when first erected. Tersely expressed, the court house appears too good to be pulled down and not good enough to be dovetailed into a modern twentieth cen tury public building. It is almost a, foregone conclusion that the . city governments of Omaha and South Omaha and the government of Douglas county will in the no very dis tant future be merged, and eventually Greater Omaha will embrace territory ten miles square under the name of the City and County of Omnha. A public building adequate for the accommoda tion of all departments of municipal and county governments will Involve an out lay of not less than $1,000,000, and pos sibly $1,500,000. At 4 per cent that would mean an annual tax levy to meet Interest of from $40,000 to $(10,000, and at least $20,000 more for the mainte nance of the building, namely, for Jani tors, elevator service, light and heat. -Manifestly this will be a .great under taking that cannot be rushed. The court house of the future should be planned with a view to the future growth of Omaha and Douglas county. A structure, covering the entire court house square, could be erected in sec tions, leaving the present court bouse to be demolished after the Harney street front and the east and west fronts have been completed. That would enable the County to utilise the present court house until the new, quarters are completed and eventually the" building materials In the present court house could be dis posed of to the Itest advantage. As a prellmluary measure the Board of County .Commissioners might Invite architects to submit outline sketches of the new court house with such plans ns would enable the board to secure a re liable .estimate of the coat of construc tion. Such an estimate would neces sarily have to precede the submission of any proposition for a court house bond lasue. In the meantime, It seems to us, the commissioners will be Justified In mak ing the present court bouse more acces sible to the public and habitable for the officials that are located' therein.' With this end In view, It may he necessary to tunnel the approach to the building and to erect elevators under the dome. Such a plan might Involve the abandonment of part of the basement, which In real ity never was Intended to be used for office purposes. In view of the peudlng consolidations of the offices of city and county treas urer, the probabilities are that the trens- urer will be able to vacate his quarters next spring and remove into the offices now occupied by the city treasurer. This change, and the removal of the county assessor to the city hnll, would more than offset any loss of space in the base' ment and. In fact, would probably en able the county to utilize a portion of the space now occupied by the trens' urer and assessor for'othcr purposes. SOT WHOLLY SATISFACTORY. The correspondent of an eastern paper reports a member of the Chinese em bassy at Washington as snylng that the order of President Roosevelt to the im migration authorities In regard to the enforcement of the exclusion act Is not entirely satisfactory to Uie Chinese gov ernment, that it does not answer the complaints of that government In any respect and will have no Influence on the campaign against American merchants that Is being waged In the empire. This representative of China stated that his government is seeking something more than polite treatment from the officials of our immigration service and that while the president's order Is gratifying to Chinese officials it Is not regarded by them as touching the root of the com plaint "It is the overriding of our treaty rights to which China objects," he said. "That is the chief complaint we have against the United States. China Is tak ing steps to protect its rights and will not calmly submit to the course of the United States. Evidence is being se cured by Chinese consuls all over the country which Is to be used as the basis of claims for damages against this gov ernment." He said that the boycott against American goods will not be cnlled off because of President Roose velt's order. An authoritative statement of this kind regarding the position of the Chinese government and the merchants of that empire should command the serious at tention of all who take any interest in our commercial relations .with the Chi nese empire. We recently noted a report to the Deportment of State that tliere had been a check to the movement in China for the boycotting of American goods. Later advices indicate that such has not been the case and the statement of the member of the Chinese embassy at Washington Is anything but reassur ing. What he Is reported to have said shows that the Issue has not been settled by the order of President Roosevelt and implies that nothing short of a new trenty, more liberal in Its terms than the one which lapsed last year, will satisfy the Chinese government There is pre sented in this a matter of vital import ance to our Asiatic trade, the determina tion of which will decide whether the United States Is to have a fair share of that trade or to be entirely shut out from It A sample brick of the hog wash evolved by one of our enterprising con temporaries, is embodied in the following contribution from its South Omaha bureau: 1 Repeated and persistent rumors of pro posed railroad improvements In this city keeps alive the hopes of many that the fu ture of the Magic City Is far from gloomy and that within a few years at least ex tensive Improvements will be made. These rumors, of course, are not new. They have been flying for years and they do not tend to throw the city Into a great state of excitement at the present time. It Is fair to assume that the big railroad corporations will take advantage of the opportunities afforded them here for In creased facilities. They own a lot of property, real and personal, and they are growing all the time. The organization of a new State Board of Dentistry created by the law enacted by the recent Nebraska legislature is notice to all ambitious tooth pullers that they Will not be able to inflict their un fortunate victims after September 1 without first passing an examination to demonstrate their agility with the for ceps. The main purpose of the law, how ever, is to put a stop to itinerant tooth artists who have been poaching upon the preserves of the regular practitioners, and if it succeeds In shutting out these cut-rate intruders the rcgulurs will take their examinations and pay the examina tion fee without complaint. Attorney General Brown has given Governor Mickey a written opinion to the effect that the regulation or suppres sion of street fairs does not come within the gubernatorial Jurisdiction. As long as the governor avoids the bad example set fay his immediate predecessor of gra cing a fake bull fight with his presence and sanction the good people ef Ne braska should be satisfied. While there is no controversy over Omaha real estate assessments before the State Board of Equalleatlon, the Omaha Real Estate exchange may be expected to manifest some Interest In the protest raised by Lincoln merchants agnlnst the personal property assess ments in Omaha and Douglas county. It is said that more than 4,000 lives, 200 ships and $11)0,000,000 have been ex pended at various times in efforts to reach the north pole. On this computa tion, should the goal ever be achieved, every acre of ground in the whole Arctic region will have been bought and paid for at better than market rntes. A Judge of the United States circuit court at New York has taken a fall out of the book publishers' association by refusing to grant uu injun-'tlon to en force an anti-rate cutting agreement. At last accounts, however, the price quota tions )f book trust publications were unchanged. The first fruit of the election of a con gressman to fill the vacancy in the repre sentation of the First Nebraska district la the unloosing of a triangular postoffice fight at Auburn. The other momentous Issues at stake will have to wait for con- slderatlon until after this contest Is set tied. lawyers and Lltlaatloa. Cincinnati Enquirer. Ons of the lessons of the day la that the administration of the law Is largely In the hands of the lawyers; that the practice Is what makes It; that If they give themaelvea up. aa experts In what the law Is, to dis covering ways to get around It. they cun probably find flaws In any statute which can be devised. The great need Is of bet ter legislators men who can devise ttat utes through which sharp lawyers cannot drive horses and wagons. Then there would be less business for lawyers, of course, but the people would par less. Pabllo Opinion's raalshsaent. Louisville Courier-Journal. Public opinion is the expression of public conscience. A strict and vigilant publlo conscience Is a good thing". It makes for the betterment of government and of men. We have seen It very recently put some "high financiers" and politicians In the pil lory, ami without looking them up In a prison house, visit upon them a punishment far more terrible. There are Indications that It Is growing more exacting dally. Let us hope that It Is, for the stricter it Is, the more will men fear It: the more they fear It. the higher will be their standard of living and acting. This It.akee It Clear. Philadelphia Ledger. So Intimately did the ancients associate the heliacal rising of Slrlus with events of Importance to that land that they even In stituted a heliacal year. Various dates have been assigned by tradition as the first dog day, and various periods ss con stituting the season. It has been claimed hat It commenced In the remote past on August l and lasted forty days, until Sep tember 14. As few as thirty days are sometimes cited, and as many as fifty-four. Pliny refers to the commencement of the dog days to the heliacal rising of Procyon, wnicn seems at least appropriate as being canicular, and which occurred July 19. It would seem that forty days was regarded as the period In most cases, twenty days before and twenty days after the heliacal rising of Sirlua. Hoaseeleanlna;, New York Sun. Some moralists hold im rn..i.. hands In horror at thtt mmn rr official, corporate and private, that has come 10 ugnt in the last year or so. The truth is that the country Is doing the most vigorous housecleanlng- It has ever done. The land thieves their way to follow the postal 'thieves. Philadelphia, so long the home of an or ganised, elaborate and apparently Invin cible system of boodle, has begun to shake' ine oooaiers on. Their long, Insolent rule Is over, and the tall la at tha ,n h.i. road. In this town the looting of the Equitable, while as yet unpunished physi cally, has produced not only here, but throughout the country & stern exaspera tion with the unfaithful stewards. Re spectabilities find rnntln 1 crumbled n an hour. The public demands nonesiy in private business aa in publio affairs. A sound Bublio nnininn high conception of honor and duty, are vimuie in me American people. They are Intolerant of dirty work. They are now getting rid of a great lot of It. That wherever they find it they are taking dis honesty by the scruff of the neck is te the honor of the United States. DAY OP THE HYPOCRITE, "Reformers" Seek to Divert Scrutiny 7 trying; "Stop Thief. Lincoln Star. Many of the blira-eat thlva .. cloak of alleged reform, are crying "stop thief," and turning state's vMnr sibly for the purpose of Improving the moral lone or society, but primarily with the purpose In view of savlnar thmaiv. In time, making sure a place In the choir of saintly singers and, thereby, avoiding an aquaintance with the stern-faced Jailer. Of such frequent occurence are these "exposes" of misdeeds In high financial and social circles that one must examine each story with the same care and scrutiny that used to be employed with legal tender In the days of wild cat currency. Every man and woman, and almost every child. In Lincoln knows, directly or Indl- reciiy, men wno have used railroad passes whenever they could bee. hnrrnw n. i - a, - if. m them. Knowledge of newspapers and other corporations wnicn have grown rich on corporation money, plundering the public funds and. through rebates anH fees, collecting and withholding great earns from the rightful owners, is almost equally common. some or the newspapers and "reformers" of Nebraska, now praying so loudly In order to divert attention from their own misdeeds would first srlva un hir stolen gains and come Into the great court 01 equity with clean hands, their cries would ring more true and. doubtless. rnh a thtone of grace. Some of tha most effective evangelists the world ever knew have been nan hn forsaking a life ot sin, have turned suddenly Into the straight road, but who, In the transformation, have- opened their pockets and given up every dollar of Ill-gotten gain. To expect such action from these alleged reiormers wno now preach so loudly and sing so voclferlously would, of eoura be asking something that everyone knows will never take place. WHE! TUB FARMER BITS, Application of Wisdom to tha Dlagnat of the Specalatora. Chicago Record-Herald. This is the season of the year when th busy farmer Is supposed to be out In the field under the hot, hot sun, earning his bread most literally by the sweat of his brow. Up In the Red River valley, how ever, there Is a community of farmers who toil not, neither do they perspire, but who have Just accumulated bank accounts which will guarantee them dally bread for many a long day to come. These farmers have been careful students of the methods of the wheat pits, and they know that natural advantagea ought never to be neglected. The natural advantage of the Red River valley is that, In default of more definite and complete Information, the reports of Its condition are accepted by wheat dealers as a sort of barometer of conditions the country over. Last week the farmers put their heads together and bought all the wheat they could find the cash to margin. A day or two later dire report about the rust began to go out to the world from their valley. These were followed by the arrival at Minneapolis of a number of samples of rust-Infected wheat. Prices Jumped. The farmers hurried selling orders to their brokers. About the time the checks for their profits began to reach them they looked their wheat fields over and decided that crops were In pretty fair condition after all. Tha professionals of the wheat pit are thoroughly well accustomed to losing to each other and to losing to the mr.n with the earliest and best Information, but It must really ruin their faith In human nature to And that the farmers who grow the wheat In which they deal are capable of taking such a mean advantage over them. If Incidents like this are reported again we shall doubtleas find the state legislatures of the country flooded with bills to protect the poor board of trade brokers against the wicked wiles and ma nipulations of the clever farmers lepra the back districts. ROISD ABOIT HEW YORK. Ripples on the (.arrest of Life I the Metropolis. Wall street has ceased to murmur about the stock transfer tax and Is paying up with reasonable cheerfulness. Couldn't dodge the penalty without moving Into New Jersey and that was too much. Dur ing the first month the tax yielded about $400,0110. Legitimate stock transactions were not diminished, but fictitious attempts to affect the market were rendered profitless. It Is estimated the tax will yield New York state 15.0(),X a year. "Thle," says the Philadelphia Press, "Is a fair Illustration of various sources of revenue If the taxation In American states and cities were made more general than It Is, Instead of resting almost exclusively on real estate, with the result of adding to the cost of living by In crease In rents." v. The People's Kitchen, where you can get a BUUare meal for S rents niw.ni.it a rin at 13S East Broadway and proved to be a great success. For 6 cents one gets soup, roast meat, bread and tea, with milk and sugar. Constantine riollir ta lh nnu IT originated this nlan r Msh K oannot afford to pay more than S cents for a meal. He says he will make money out of it, too, as the business done already In dicates, and It Is his -Intention to open 5 cent meal houses all over town. Qeller expects to feed about 1.000 men and Women a dav. How ha rama In start It was that day after day men came to him at his other lunch place. 816 Canal street, asking for free meals, via tniu.rf tn hi. friend, Abraham Bchoenberg, who keeps a lunchroom at ISO Pprlng street, and to gether they planned the enterprise. The dining room will hnlrt ahn,it nt . sons at a time. It will be open dal!yfrom 11 a. m. to 1 n. m. and from Sloln m Tt will be closed for throe hours to clean up. Well known cltisens and philanthropists on the East Bide are watching the experi ment, and It It comes up to their expecta tions they will advance the money for similar places In many sections along the East Side. There appears to be an Increaalna- hollof among residents f other sections r tha country that New York Is a desirable sum mer resort. The note's and the "sight-seeing" automobiles and aVldes actually plain that they cannot acoonuaodate those aesinng tneir services. In many ways the city's attractions are unique. Many of Its modern hotels have roof gardens where dinner Is served after sunset. Every known artificial anntianxa for keeping cool Is in use. Within fort minutes of most of the dwelling places of clubs are excellent sea bathing resorts. It Is quite possible for any one to leave busi ness at 4 or o'clock and be In the ocean within' an hour. After the bath a good dinner, after the dinner an entertainment quite Inexpensive, Including comic opera or nreworKS. A summary view of New Tnrtr a very beginning of the nineteenth century has come to lla-ht In a atrav .t a.-... Nouveau Dictlonalre Unlversel de Geo graphic, published at Lyons In 1804 (An XII). To New York City Is apportioned Just half of an octave page, conveying the following information, among other statis tics: "New York, an American city, capital of the province of the same name; built on the little Island of Manhattan, at the mouth of the Hudson river, thirty-six miles northeast of Amboy. It was partly burnt in the war of Independence. All that has been rebuilt Is quite fine. We cite par ticularly the street of Broadway, which Is a mile and a half long and seventy feet wide, and at the south ends In a handsome park, where there is a promenade. The water Is generally bad. The prisons are well built and well conducted, their In terior administration being intrusted to the Quakers. The number of Inhabitants was very considerable, but yellow fever depop ulated it In 1799 and in 1808. The finest building In New York Is Federal hall, where Washington and congress took the oath at the beginning of the federal constitution. Beyond the park there Is building today the elegant and new city hall (ville de hall). The pound of 20 schillings of 1J pencea is current, and Is worth 13 francs IS centimes." Tourists have queer tastes, and nowhere are they displayed so plainly as In the "Seeing New York" wagons. When these wagons began to run In New York no thought was taken of a visit to Bteve Brodle's commonplace and unwholesome little saloon on the Bowery, but the demand of patrons became so strong that It is the chief sight, next to Chinatown. The Met ropolitan Museum of Art. the beautiful Lenox library building, Grant's tomb and Riverside Drive are not nearly so popular as these places. Many visitors to New York Insist on seeing the city prison (the Tombs), where Nan Patterson and others wh gained wide notoriety were locked up. Tea speculators in New York who pur chased large quantities of Japanese and Formosa teas in anticipation of either an ultimate Russian victory or the indefinite prolongation or hostilities In the far east, now are having difficulty in disposing of their holdings. Except for two weeks, when the Russian Baltic sea fleet was ap proaching Japan, the exorta from that country have not been interrupted, and the new crop or tea now Is coming forward In large quantities. The crop from Japan this year Is estimated at 18.000.000 pounds, against 20.000,000 last year. This falling off is more than counterbalanced by the old tea held over, which Is now being offered at a sacrifice. Formosa tea. which sold readily at 14H cents a pound before the re cent Japanese victories. Is now nfrara aa low aa IS cents, and sales are slow. The American market had been overstocked, and for this reason an unusual dulness set In. Discretion of Hyde. Bprlngfleld Republican. Statistician Hyde of the Agricultural de partment affords us the extraordinary spectacle of a public officer "retiring under fire." It seems to have become a rule of the profession never to do this, but to hang on all the tighter aa the fire grows hofer: aad as no ona is expected to resign when not under fire, ft follows that there ahould never be any resigning anyway. But Mr. Hyde, with grirk facetlousness. apologises for breaking the rule by re marking that he is never without being under fire, and must resign under It if at all. What he says Is measurably true, yet the assaults from the speculative marketa ahould have been a a summer shower to a duck's back In the case of a statistician conscious of performing his duties to the best of his ability and Integrity. Free Haa for Root. Brooklyn Eagle. Ellhu Root is a very strong man. But he will not be strong enough successfully to corduct the State department througii deputies or Instruments of the kind em ployed In that department for several years past. He will take out of the department leas reputation than he brings Into It, if he be burdened with the men under whom the department was compromised and weakened during the enforced absence of John Hay from duty. Mr. Root to be secre tary with usefulness and success must be secretary with a free hand. He has made a great sacrifice of material Interests to take the secretaryship. He can find able men ready to make a like aac-rltlue, for the sake of the country. LAWS AND I.AWSO. Conrts Cnmlnar to t'n4erstand PoMIe Sentiment Better. St. Louis Globe-Pemorrat. Many people have not understood what It la that Lawaon wants. For Lawson him self Is contradictory and Inconsistent. One mut square what he says he wants with the cube root of what he says he doesn't want to get an understanding of the prob lem he presents. lawson comes to the peo ple snylng thnt lnw Is Ineffective for the control and regulation of the great enter prises which dominate the Industries of the country and exploit the stock market as a metns of making money on their Intangible wealth. Lawson has told us over and over again, In print, and more lately In addresses which he has traveled thousands of miles to deliver, that the laws are powerless to reach the evil or to touch the pro We -n raised by these great aggre gations of capital, which not only con trol the staple markets, but the financial markets as well. Even after It Is demon strated how Lawson may stand to win If i his simple plan of unloading trust stocks and certificates should be adopted as a remedy, it la difficult to believe that he Is not honest, he seems so much In earnest. But surely Lawson la not consistent. For after declaring the powerlessness of lnw he at once declares .opposition to publio ownership. Logically, when It Is once dem onstrated beyond question that the law Is as powerless as Lawson says It Is and must continue to be, public ownership will at once become the only solvent. It Is not necessary to say that tha Globe Democrat has consistently opposed public Ownership, but It is hardly more necessary to say that we were convinced, as Lawson says he is, that the state Is without power to control Its own creatures, we should advocate their "taking over" by the state as the only thing left to do. To leave the creature greater than the creator, and standing In open defiance of the law or dained for the protection of the publio right and interest against private en croachment, would be out of the, question. However, the people are nowhere con vinced, as Lawson Is, or says he Is, that law has ceased to be a potent force In this country. There Is an awakening In courts which have too often lent them selves to evasive constructions of laws amounting to nullification, to the fact that there Is a publio sentiment demanding broader Interpretation and stricter enforce ment. This sentiment grows out of the foriviction In tha nnhlle mlnj ih.t i est enforcement of law is all lhat Is needed to solve most of the problems of the day. Shallow politicians who have failed to note the change which has occcurrred within the last few years are strengthening men who, like Governor Folk, are planting themselves on a broad platform of law enforcement. Governor Folk's position would not be as strong tm it is if taken only towartUBun day laws or sumptuary laws of any kind But coming at a time follow! ... of nonenforcement of laws designed to protect the public against more serious evils than Sunday beer, he is Indeed a featherhead who underestimates the strength of a general declaration for en forcement of all law. The American peo ple have not yet lost confidence in them selves. PERSONAL NOTES. Henry C. Frlck Is to build In Pittsburg the finest business structure in the world to cost $10,000,000. In addition to this, Mr! Frick has had plans prepared for a new twenty-story hotel, named the Hotel Frlck This Is intended to be the finest hotel in the world, and will cost $10,000,000. Prof. White of Ithaca, N. Y.. has ar rived in Berlin from Florence, Italy, after he hut. succeeded in securing the niu.. from the Italian government of the val-' uarne collection of books and art objects left to Cornell university by Prof. D. W. Flske, the well known Danish scholar. Frank C. Churchill, special agent of the bureau of Indian affairs at Washington, has gone to Nome aa the special agent of President Roosevelt to Investigate the con ditions prevailing among the Alaska In dians and the best steps to be taken by the government for their care and educa tion and to prevent extinction. The thirty-three Russian grand dukes own 360 castles and palaces in Russia and abroad, and support an army of about 20,000 servants. Quite one-fortieth of the' best lands In European Russia belongs to these grand dukes. Of the thirty-three, six It is stated, have so little education that they can hardly read and write. Mayor 6amuel Roberts of Norrlstown' Pa., has put himself In line for a Carnegie medal. Ho was fishing from a boat tn the Delaware liver when he noticed that two boys had fallen off a swimming raft and were In danger of being drowned. Mr. Rob erts rowed to the scene, and, plunging In the water without time to take off his clothing, grabbed the boys by the hair as they were going down a third time. When the mayor drew them to the surface great was his surprise to find they were his own children. The late Mary A. IJvermore was a shrewd woman who believed in "fighting the devil with fire." Khe was converted to this idea by the example of an old friend, a clergyman. With a solemn air he an nounced from the pulpit one day that a button had been found In the collection. "Only ono Individual In the church could have been guilty of this trick," he said, "and X ahall expect a coin." After service a member of the church owned up to being the culprit and asked. "How did you know I was the man?" "I did not know," said the clergyman. "But you said only one person could have done it." "Just so," was the reply. "Two persons could not have put the same button on the plate." Sixty years of experience with Ayers Sarsa parilla! Think of that! Think of the millions of people who have been cured by this medicine! If despondent, down-hearted, discouraged, and almost ready to give up, this splendid old family medicine will prove the silver lining to your dark and dismal cloud. Ask your doctor. Bad by US f. C. At aim auuMiuitra STUB'S BAT TlOOB-r'or te Uir. AlfcaVS CnKKET rCTOMAL-Vsi esscae, TB4.LISO. To net Something thnt Relonas to An other the anae ot Oar TronMes. Wall Street Journal. At the root of every trouble with which the American people are now dealing Is the crime of stealing. There Is one certain solution for air the problems which now beset us In politics and In business, and that la honesty. It would be difficult to name a single question of administration In the field of government and of business to which this does not apply. ' The country is now debating the ques tion of railway rate regulation, and try ing to discover how ths Independence and rights ot the railroad corporations can be preserved and at the same time the In terests of the people be protected. And yet there would be no problem of railroad rate regulation If there had been entire honesty In the management of the ralU roads. The rebate la a modern form of stealing. It is a method of defrauding the many for the benefit of the few, and It haa been the rebate evil which Is chiefly responsible for the demand of govern ment regulation of rates. Then there is the question of what we shall do with the great Industrial cor porations which are called the trusts. Per haps this may be thought to bo purely an economic problem, but go more closely into It and it is discovered to be an eth ical problem, and deep down at the bottom la the question of common honesty. The methods of establishing monopoly are commonly those of forcibly taking front many their opportunities for Independent competition, with the object In view of charging the consumer more for his neces sities of life than the fair value of the products. This is doublo-euged dishon esty. What is the problem which now con fronts the government In relation to the administration of the crop bureau but the question of honesty? There would be ho serious difficulty in estimating the crops If it was possible to procure men to make these estimates who would be superior to the temptation of speculation. The fact Is that multitudes of people both high and low, are still unable to Identify the various methods of . making corrupt profits out of the government service and the corporations, as being ot the same nature as common stealing. And there are men right here In Wall street who can see no reason why they should not profit at the expense of others through deceitful stock manipulation, clever company promo tion and "centlflc use of their "oppor tunities" as directors of corporations In the making of contracts, in the fixing of salaries and the selling of bonds. Hence the thing most essential today Is the awakening of th publio conscience to the helnousness ot the crime of stealing. MONDAY REMINDERS. "She is always thinking of her husband" comfort and peace of miad," said one woman. "Yes," answered the other: "every even ing Just before he comes home she puts the thermometer In the lee' chest for a few minutes." Washington Star, Small girl In bed, being read to by an elder cousin Small Girl When I die, shall I go to heaven, Mary? Mary Oh, yes; If you are a good girl. Small Olrl I want to see Moses. 1 shall tell him I heard quite a lot about him down here. London Globe. Tourist I understand your western towns are very proKresslve. Redhorse Sam Yes. Yesterday I guv a man two hours to leave town and he got out in ten minutes.'-Chlcago News. "Your latest production was a poem worth reading," said the flattering friend. "Yes," answered the ambitious young lit erary man. "But after seeing the check sent by the publisher I have concluded that it wasn't worth writing." Washington Star. "Brackett. It appears, was unable to get into any of the college .fraternities.'! Why was he so unpopular? "Oh, I guess the boys didn't like him because he studied so hard that hia pitch ing suffered, and the team lost most of the games when he was, In the box." Chi cago Record-Herald. "I am always carried away by that song," he suld, as she arose from the piano. "So you told me once before," she re joined. "That's why I sang It." Chicago bally News. "And when you told him I was married." said the girl who had Jilted him, "did he seem to be sorry?" "Yes," replied the other, "he said he was very sorry although he didn't know the man personally." Philadelphia Ledger. "Your hair is coming out on top, sir," said the barber. "Good!" exclaimed Pepprey. "I knew It was In me. Now, for goodness sake don't talk to It or It will crawl back again." Philadelphia Press. Madam Be sure to put plenty of nuts In the cake. Cook I'll crack no more nuts today.' My Jaw hurts me already. Harper's Baxar, "It's so bard for a man to find work after he's been In Jail." -"Unless he's a chauffeur." Puck. THE OLD STORY. New York Sun. His hair was red, his stature short, His freckles far from dim; The neighbors all remarked "Good landl What could she see in him?" Yet this is how It came about She went to Cupid's shop And told exactly what she wished Without a single stop. "A man of fully six feet two. With hair of raven wave, A noble brow, a Samson's strength. The bravest of the brave." The graceless clerk then shook his head As every salesman should. "All out of that." he said, "but here Is something Just as good." The little chap was sent next day; The neighbors cry with vim: "Now what on earth do you suppose She ever (aw In him?" Ca . Lowall, staaa. ATEB'S PlttS-For eesitlsstins. ATsk'i A (.US CUM.--I'M maiatui sadiros.