THE OMAIIA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, KEITEfBER 4, 1005
Tin7. Omaiia Daily Bee
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State of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss. !
George B. Tzschuck, treasurer of The Bee
Publishing Company, being duly sworn,
ay I. that the actual number of full and
complete copies of The Dally, Morning,
Evening and Sunday Uee printed during the
month of August. 19U6, was as follows:
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t 8H.0HO 18 . SO.OBO
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4 2M.040 20 ,8T0
S ..), 21 !W,M0
6 30.0BO 22 80,000
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12 81,810 28 8n,lUO
13 .80,220 2.. 82,250
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IS... irtt.ltHO 31 . 80,880
16 20,SO
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GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK,
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WHEN OUT Or TOWH.
Subscribers leaving the city tern
porarlly shoald hare The Bee
mailed to them. It Is better thai
s dally letter from horn. Ad
dress will be changed as often as
requested.
Nebraska's late corn must bo In bad
shape since it lias not yet been reported
damaged In any nay and September 1
has passed.
With UUHslun soldiers lu the field and
the residents of Vladivostok pleased at
the conclusion of war, It is easy to sea
why M. AVltte congratulated himself.
Next mouth the United States is to en
tertain a royal British admiral, but that
will be nothing to the strain of preserv
ing the social amenities at Portsmouth.
The Nebraska state fair Is now on. If
the fair fullyreflecta the existing agri
cultural resources of the state, it will
surely be the biggest and best on record.
Xhe. tempest lu the office of public
printer ,rnay. caused by men who for
got the unwritten rule which demands
that bureaucrats stand together in the
face of investigation. ,
Omnha's building permits so far this
year will total up close to 13,000,000,
This ought to keep every worklngman
in the building trades in Omaha busy
every working day that weather condl
tlons permit.
If those Oregon land frauds are carried
to their logical conclusion there will be
government land worth the trouble of
entry on the western slope. A few acres
turned back to the public domain should
follow so much litigutlon.
Labor unions cun strengthen their po
sitions by refusing to appeal for clem
ency for members convicted of crime.
Natural sympathy for a friend in
trouble should not be permitted to inter
fere with the effort to raise the standard
of union ethics.
Our uccoimuodutlug city attorney
promises to do his best to find a way fy
which a transfer can be legally made
from the sinking fund to the fire fund
without violating the charter, which ex
pressly prohibits such transfers. What
do people usually want a lawyer for,
anyway?
No danger that the reduction in the
price of gas, announced by the gas com
psny, will be temporary because of a
string on it by which it is to be pulled
back later. After the price of gas has
once been reduced It cannot be raised
again without suicidal effect on the busl
ness "of the company.
Out of 4-'5,0iO cash funds In the cus
tody of State Treasurer Mortensen
$150,000 Is on deioslt in Omaha bank
and more than $100,000 on deposit with
Lincoln banks. The ratio is a little out
of proportion, but Inasmuch as Omaha
banks have more money than they know
what to do with Just now, no complal
nt
will be registered.
One of the remedies for trifling on
the part of city contractors who dllly
dally with their work without regard to
their agreements would be to bar their
bids from consideration for new Jobs so
long as they are delinquent on old ones,
A private business concern would surely
take some such summary action and the
city would be Justified In doing the same
thing.
The boast of the railroads that they
always pay their taxes promptly and in
full is punctured again by the compro
mise Just reached in Otoe county by
which the Burlington has gotten out
from under soma back taxes amounting
to $10,000 on payment of $3,000. We
Lave seen aereral of those compromises
of railroad taxes before and the rail
roads carer failed to get the best of It
LABORS HOLIDAY.
In all but three or four of the states
and in the territories the first Monday
In September Is now a legal holiday and
1 as firmly established as any other
holiday observed in America. Yet It
was not until 1S82 that the first big pa
rade of organized lat.or was held In New
York on tne first Monday of September
and only In 14 was the suggestion
msde and adopted that all future pa
rades of the Knights of Labor and other
organizations of tike nature should take
place on that day. At the same time it
was decided to call the first Monday of
the first fall month Labor day. The
movement to make It a legal holiday fol
lowed quickly. In 1887 Colorado led the
way and New Jersey, New York and
Massachusetts soon followed the Cen
tennial state. In a dozen years nearly
all of the states had recognized the pro
priety and wisdom of creating a new
holiday in honor of the wage-earners of
America. Now everybody shares In the
freedom and pleasure of the holiday won
by labor.
The wage earners are the only class
of the community that have a holiday for
the promotion of their own Interests.
The mechanic alone has a holiday of his
own. This celebration is a wnoiesome
and a stimulating one. Next to agri
cultural labor, the labor of mechanics
Is the foundation of national prosperity,
and it is a good thing for the workmen
to take a day off, Impress themselves
and the rest of the community with their
numbers and their good discipline, and
direct public attention to the ranks of
industry. It awakens trade pride and
the selfrespect of the men and It Is a
Just compliment to that key to all civil
ization and progress human labor.
It Is a highly gratifying fact that there
la at this time general industrial peace.
A few local disturbances of the rela
tions of employers and employed exist,
but there are up very serious conflicts
and none threatened, unless It be In the
attitude of the anthracite coal miners,
who have begun agitation for an eight
hour day and recognition of their or
ganization by the operators. Every
where in this country labor Is well em
ployed and generally appears to b'e sat
isfied with its compensation, which In
most trades Is better than ever before.
This Is shown in the lost report of the
New York department of labor, condi
tions in that state fairly indicating those
of other manufacturing states. The
general prosperity of the working
classes is shown in the increased deios-
lts of savings banks. It is to be noted,
also, that there seems to be a greater
conservatism than formerly on the part
of organized labor, tending to more
thoughtful deliberation upon questions
affecting the Interests of labor and upon
issues arising between employers and
employed. The Intelligent worklngmen
of today have a better realization of the
cost of conflict than did their predeces
sors, and also a higher sense of their
duties and responsibilities to the public.
Thus while there Is no abatement of zeal
on the part Of organized labor in pro
moting the Interests and welfare of
those in its ranks, Its efforts are con
ducted more wisely, Judiciously and tem
perately than In the past. The advance
that has takea place in this respect Is' re
assuring for the future. It marks prog
ress toward the creation of relations be
tween employer and employed that will
do away with bitter, prolonged and dis
astrous conflicts, not infrequently result
ing from trivial differences. The United
States has the most intelligent and the
best paid labor in the world and our
high standard in this respect must be
maintained. That it shall be largely de
pends upon the worklngmen themselves,
BE ON THE SAFE BIDE.
Inquiries have come to The Bee from
parties seeking Information on behalf of
the republican organizations of several
oat6lde Nebraska counties, asking
whether nominations should be made
this year of candidates for county com
missioner. To these inquiries The Bee
replies that republicans in all counties
in which commissioners would other'
wise have been elected should make
sure that they are on the safe side by
putting commissioner candidates on
their tickets Irrespective of the new
law enacted by the legislature.
The question whether commissioners
are to be chosen this year has been
passed on here In Douglas county upon
a test made by application for a writ of
mandamus to compel the printing of the
names of candidates for comuiis
sloner on the official primary ballot
While it is true that this is a decision
subject to review and possible reversal
by the supreme court. It is neverthe
less understood that it was reached after
conference of several of the Judges of
the district court and conforms to the
opinions of the best lawyers who have
looked Into the subject. Under the
ruling of the court the attempt of the
legislature to chauge the commissioners'
terms has failed altogether with the
failure of the biennial elections law, so
that no part of the new law relating to
the election of county commissioners
holds good.
Republicans In counties in which con
ventions are yet to be held will make
no mistake in nominating candidates for
county commissioner for those districts
iu which the terms of the present In
cumbents would expire with the end of
this year, and in counties in which con
ventlons have already been held without
making such nominations the county
couimUiee should provide for filing
names, the same as If a vacancy existed
on the ticket.
The promise is made that the demo
cratic committee will fill all the minor
offices for which no filings have been
made for the primary with strong men
with a view to making the tall of 1
ticket furnish some of the propelling
power for the bead. Tills again accords
strangely with the loudly proclaimed
democratic devotion to the principle
the direct primary which undertakes
let the rank and file of the party nomi
nate the candidates instead of having
the candidates nominated for them by
the close corporation that has always
had control of the democratic ma
chinery.
THE QUESTION OK TRADE.
The thought of the commercial world
turns readily from the contemplation of
war to a consideration of the trade pos
sibilities following peace. It Is the opin
ion abroad, as noted in a London dis
patch, that in the near future the
changed condition of affairs lu the far
east will bring enormous trade develop
ments in which the United States and
Great Britain will be the largest par
ticipants. Among American exporters
are some who do not take an optimistic
view of the outlook. One of these is
quoted as saying that he does not ex
pect any boom in Japanese business
such as followed the war with China,
ten years ago, for the reason that the
Japanese people are not in condition to
buy largely. Another exporter re
marked that while the beneficial effects
to be derived from peace in the far east
undoubtedly would first be felt in Man
churia, nothing in the way of substantial
trade increase could be expected for
many months to come. "It Is easy," he
said, "for statesmen and editorial writ
ers to speculate upon the future what
the results will be years and decades
from now but the commercial world is
particularly Interested in the present."
The vle,w of these American mer
chants, who look at the situation in a
purely practical way, is doubtless cor
rect. While it is a fact that the indus
tries and commerce of Japan have been
thriving throughout the war, yet the
people cf that country have a much
heavier burden of taxation than before
and must observe for a considerable
time a much greater economy than Is
proverltial with them. This will also be
necessary for the government, which has
at least three times as much debt to
take care of as It had before the war,
without any material increase In rev
enue. Thus development will be slow, at
least for several years. As to Man
churia It will take considerable time to
restore normal conditions. The ports of
that country are said to be now con
gested with goods Intended for the In
terior and until these are disposed of
there is not likely to be a demand for
more. No one con say Just when trade
In that quarter of the world will recover
from the setback Incident to the war,
but there will be recovery and American
manufacturers and merchants should be
prepared to take advantage of It, for
they will have to meet a formidable
competition.
Secretary of State Galusha in an in
terview, endorsing the anti-pass propa
ganda, insists that the prohibition
should extend beyond the officeholder
and Include the office seeker. "If you
are going to have an anti-pass plank,"
he Is quoted as saying, "why not have
one prohibiting political delegates com
ing to state conventions on transporta
tion and to prohibit citizens of the state
continually asking public officials to se
cure transportation for them?" An In
spection of the Nebraska statutes will
disclose the fact that we already have a
law practically covering these cases by
making it unlawful for any corporation
doing business in Nebraska to give or
contribute transportation to any candi
date or political organization or com
mittee or individual to be used for po
litical purposes, and making the penalty
a fine of $1,000 for the first offense and
$2,000 for each subsequent offense with
forfeiture of charter. for continued defl-ance-of
the law. The strange part about
it is that although this enactment was
made by the fusion legislature of 1807,
so far as we know, no attempt at prose
cution under it by any political prty
has b'een recorded and the law from its
birth has been as dead as the "no-treat"
law.
The propriety of members of state
boards becoming beneficiaries of con
tracts let by their own authority Is de
cidedly questionable, and the action of
Auditor Searle in holding up a claim for
hardware In favor of one of the mem
bers of the State Normal board will have
general approval. In this particular
case, however, the claim Is made iu the
name of a corporation of which the mem
ber of the board happens to be president.
The real quesstlon Is whether the con
tract was secured unfairly by reason of
official position," and also whether the
contracting corporation has been held to
as strict account In the fulfillment of Its
obligation as would have been a corpor
ation without a representative on the
Normal board. The safe plan is for mem
bers of state boards to keep their hands
out of state contracts, whether awarded
by themselves or by other state officers
or boards.
Every true Nebraskan should rejoice
to know that Colonel John O. Maher has
persuaded Judge Alton B. Parker to
visit Nebraska on a hunting trip next
year. About the only solace left In life
to defeated presidential candidates Is to
shoulder the gun and rod and commune
with nature. In coming to the front to
rescue Judge l'arker from impending ob
livion Colonel Maher has again vindi
cated the prestige of Nebraska.
It develops that the big increases in
bank deposits shown by the statements
made in response to the recent call of
the comptroller Is to be found in all the
banks in this section of the country In
great or small degree. In other words,
the prevailing business prosperity Is be
ing shared proimrtionately by the rural
districts and small towns as well as by
the larger cities.
Ripe for Greater Task.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Stimulated by his success In dealing
with the Russians and Japanese, Presi
dent Roosevelt will probably undertake
tha task of restoring harmony among
the Shaw and Cummins factions in
Iowa.
An Aril Twinge.
Boston Transcript.
Mark Twain says: "I think nothing has
been gained by the peace that la remotely
comparable to what baa been sacrlflcsd by
It. One more battle would have abolished
the watting chains of billions upon billions
of unborn Russians, and I wish it could
have been fought." We fear Mark's optim
ism hns been Impaired by his long siege
of gout.
American Sympathy Appreciated.
Philadelphia Record.
Japan has from the first manifested her
extreme appreciation of American sympa
thy. Her two quite unprecedented re
sponses to American friendliness were her
acceptance of President Roosevelt's Invita
tion to appoint peace commissioners though
defeated Russia had not asked terms of
peace, and her waiving of the Indemnity
claim under the president's determined
efforts to bring the war to a close.
American Sea Rover.
Baltimore American.
The American Invasion of Europe this
summer has been greater than ever before.
Perhaps before the close of the century 60
per cent of Europe's population will have
become American citizens, and then will
make an annual Journey to the old country
to study the ways of their anceMors. Al
ready the transatlantic steamships are
taxed to carry and bring back the thou
sands who annually ift the Euroiean
fever, and as the travel Increases con
stantly there must be yet mor big liners
to accommodate the American sa rovers.
Start the Wheel Again.
Leslie's Weekly.
A western organisation of wheelmen la
hard at work with the highly laudable aim
of starting another boom for the bicycle.
It Is an exceedingly difficult matter to
create a boom by purely artificial methods,
but we sincerely hope that this effort will
succeed. The bicycle boom Is a boom
which deserves to be boomed. Call It what
ever you like a erase or a fad the popu
lar Interest and enthusiasm for the wheel
which swept over the country a few, years
ago was one of the happiest and healthiest
"erases" that ovor struck the Amerloan
people or any other people, and It cannot
come again too soon or stay too long. How
much those years of bicycle activity added
to the sum total of Innocent human enjoy
ment, human vitality and energy. It would
be Impossible to estimate, but we venture
the statement without fear of contradic
tion, that no other modern contrivance of
human devising has contributed so largely
to these benefits as the wheel.
PERSONAL NOTKS,
Elmer Dovey. secretary of the republican
national committee, rose to that position
In Just nine years from a newspaper re
porter receiving a very small salary.
Imagine the satisfaction of the 15-year-old
heroine of a recent ocean rescue at
Coney Island when she realized that she
had dragged out of the ocean a seven
feet, two Inches tall drum major.
Mrs. Roswell P. Flower, widow of Gov
ernor Flower, has recently given a hand
some granite and marble drinking fountain
to the city of Wntertown, N. T. It Is
to be erected In the public square at a cost
of $15,000.
Dr. Carl Peters, thp well known ex
plorer, has Just returned to London after
an extended tour 'in Bouth Africa, prin
cipally In Rhodesia, where lie has made
some Interesting historic discoveries tend
ing to confirm his theory that Mashona
land Is the ancient Land of Ophlr.
According to the observation of a clerk
In the New York Federal Naturalization
bureau the Italian Who decides to chanao
nis name to something more convenient
usually chooses a , Hibernian appellation.
Antonio becomes Patrick, for example
and to complete bla assumed nationality,
Patrick might perhaps explain the choice
oy saying that t,i handler on the tongue.
There 1b -viblent " opposition among
tannaians agaln;tjie erecting of a monu
ment In Quebec to the memory of Gen
eral Richard Montgomery,, the American
hero of revolutionary fame. Even the
crude board sign erected three-quarters of
a century ago near the cliff to mark the
spot where Montgomery fell, has been
ordered removed . by the military depart
ment or Ottawa.
Amos Rusle, once a famous pitcher of
the New York club of the National base
ball league. Is a lumber hand and has been
engaged In this business In the southern
part of Indiana for some time at $1.50 a
day. It is now announced that he has ob
talned a better place in Cairo, 111., where
he will receive ft a day. Rusle received
$5,000 a year while with the New York
club, but for the last two years he has
drawn only $1.60 a day. It la not likely
ne win ever re-enter the base ball field.
A PROPHECY OF PROSPERITY.
Slgnlflcance of Order for Kew Rail
road Equipment.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The executive officers of one of our ureal
railway systems haa ordered fifty miles
oi locomotives and cars. Included were
136 locomotives, seventy-five chair cars and
6,300 freight cars. The order calls for an
expenditure of $2,000,000. and the new cars
are to do delivered early next year.
The most Important Item 1 n the rnn
tract is that relating to freight cars. The
5,200 cars ordered represent in tnnnm
the earning capacity of 10,400 of the freight
cara in use twenty-five years ago. This
is true of all the new cars on the several
railway systems, and not one but all the
great railways have ordered or will order
new equipment this year.
The orders are proportionately as large
as me oraer or the Harrlman system given
recently, and in every case the rarrvi
cupacity of the roads has been greatly
mcreasea.
All the railways centering In Chlca i
port increase in business, and all are pre
paring for further increase next vear. fin
the lakes more ships are under construc
tion than in any previous year, and all
signs point to the steady enlargement of
lake commerce. The new lake freight car
riers, like the new freight cars, are of
enlarged capacity, so that the same num
ber of new vessels will carry two or three
times the tonnage of the old ones.
If the renewal of railway equipment were
peculiar to one railway system It would
mean that conditions indicative of con
tlnued and increased prosperity prevailed
on all the lines of that system. But as
all the great railways are renewing and
Increasing equipment the conditions indica
tive of prosperity must be common to all
parts of the country.
The new equipment, however, Indicates
more than Improvements in railway busi
ness. It means more work for the foun
dries and machine shops, more demand
for the products of our mines, more do
mand for labor.
The railway managers. In preparing for
an expected increase In passenger and
freight traffic, are coiitiibuliug to tha en
largement of our industries. They see In
the Immediate future more abundant crops,
with an Increase of all those products
that make our Internal commerce tha
largost in the world.
If Japan or Russia should order 136 new
locomotives and 5,200 freight cars, tha
commercial world would be In a fever of
excltenynt as to the significance of tha
order. One railway system in the United
States orders an ex.ienditure of $2,000,000
for new eoulpment and the commercial
world accepts the order as a matter of
course. And yet, were there not warrant
for the construction of thousands of new
cars they would not be ordered.
Tha mere fact that thousands of new
cars have been ordered, not by on rail
way, but by several, la In 1UU prophecy
of continued prvsi-trlt,
TALKING OP CAKDID4TRS.
Emerson Enterprise: Judge William P.
Warner of Dakota City Is receiving much
favorable mention for chairman of the re
publican state central committee. Mr.
Warner Is level-headed and strenuous and
would put up a winning campaign.
Norfolk Frees: The discovery has been
made that John H. Ames, who wants to be
supreme Judge, Is one of Joe Bartleys
bondsmen. That will likely settle It. The
Bartley bondsmen can't run for office any
faster than they settle with the state.
North Nebraska Eagle: Tha nam of
Judge William P. Warner of this place Is
being prominently mentioned throughout
the state for chairman of the republican
state central committee. Mr. Warner has
made a record In politics that any man
might feel proud of. Being honest, capable
and a willing worker, the party .would hare
at Its helm a man that would be a repre
sentative of the people.
Wlnslde Tribune: It Is early for any talk
about the next governor, but about the
roost sensible suggestion as to the suc
cessor of the present nonentity yet made
Is that John D. Haskell of Wakefield be
drafted and forced to accept. While we
do not think Mr. Haskell Is acceptable to
the railroads, and hence is barred, yet if
this quiet, shrewd little man was nomi
nated he would make one of the greatest
governors the state has ever had.
Lincoln Star: It la clear that John H.
Ames will have strong and formidable fol
lowing In the republican state oonvsntlon
for the nomination for Judge of the su
preme court. Ills support la not confined
to any locality, but his fitness for the place
Is generally recognized. Judge Ames' candi
dacy started oh firm ground with the unani
mous Indorsement of the republicans of
Lancaster county. That unanimity .was
certified to the republicans of the state
by the action of the convention authorising
him to name the delegates from the county
to the state convention, and It truly re
flected the sentiment and will of the re
publicans of Lancaster county.
Ashland Gazette: The Gazette desires to
suggest to the republican stats convention
the name of Dr. A. 8. von Mansfelde of
this city 'as a candidate for the office of
regent of the university. As to the doctor's
qualifications for the position, they are
ebove question. All through a long and
active professional career he has taken a
deep interest in the cause of higher educa
tion. No one in the state has been more
loyal to our university, no one has Its
success more at heart, no one has gloried
In Its power and prestige with more genuine
satisfaction. He has always entertained
high Ideals for this great Institution and
would bring to Its business councils broad
Intelligence guided by a Just pride In Its
achievements and a fervent purpose to
make It more and more a bulwark of the
greatness of our imperial state of Nebraska.
If Dr. Mansfelde should be chosen as a
member of the Board of Regents no one in
the state would ever have occasion to re
gret the choice.
Aurora Republican: Under the caption,
"Danger Ahead," the St. Paul Republican
sounds a timely note of warning. Editor
Perkins Is one of the far-seeing editors of
the state press. He Is a most consistent
and careful republican. And when he
speaks against the nomination of J. H.
Ames of Lincoln for the supreme bench It
Is well to give some heed to his remarks.
The qualifications of Judge Ames are not
brought into question. Nor is his popu
larity or standing as a man deprecated.
But there Is a point made against the Lin
coln man and that is that he was one of
the signers of Hartley's bond. If such be
the case (and it has not been disputed) the
republicans of Nebraska cannot afford to
nominate Judge Ames. The Bartley mat
ter has been the Jonah on the republican
craft too long. It has defeated us when
we have deserved success. To nominate
Judge Ames, though he be the most com
petent Jurist the state has to offer on the
political altar, would be to tear open the
old sores and drag the Bartley bugbear
out of Its present hiding place Into the
light of searching day. We dare not do
this if we would elect a republican su
preme Judge this fall. We dare not depend
on such a candidate to head our ticket.
And wo dare not go before the people ask
ing their support for a signer of the Bart
ley bond for supreme Judge when that un
fortunate matter Is still unsettled before
the courts. There are other well qualified
and well known candidates who would
grace the ticket and insure Its certain
success. Let us make no mistake.
GERMANS ADROAD.
Spread of tho Tentonto Race In
Various Countries.
New York Tribune.
Borne recent imperial statistics In Ger
many give interesting Information, though
not entirely pleasing to Germany, concern
ing the number and place of German sub
jects or former subjects In foreign lands.
There are, It appears, outside of the Ger
man empire more than 5,000,000 persons who
were born within It and were thus Its na
tural subjects1, and there are also more
than 460,000 who are or were not native but
adopted subjects. Against this loss of more
than 5,450,000 Germany has gained fewer
than 826,000 inhabitants from, abroad, of
whom four-fifths are from the adjacent
countries of Austria, Holland, Switzerland
and Russia. Of the 3.460,000 emigrants alt
but an Insignificant minority have become
naturalized In their new homes, and thus
are permanently lost to the fatherland,
while a much smaller proportion of the
immigrants have become naturalised In
Germany.
The distribution of the expatriated Ger
mans is worthy of notice. More than three
fourths of them, or 2,669.164, are In the
United States. Russia, not counting Fin
land, comes next, with 151.103; Switzerland
has 134,590; Austria, 106.364; France, 90,746,
and Great Britain, 53,402. Of lands beyond
the seas, after America, Australia has re
ceived the largest number, 42,671, while
27,302 are found in Canada. In view of all
that has been said about the significant
Influx of Germans into South America, and
the creation there of vast German colonies
which would soon demand political annexa
tion to tha fatherland. It is interesting to
observe that Argentina has received the
largest number In that continent, but only
17,143, while no figures are given for Brazil
or any other South American country for
the reason that the reports take no account
of any country in which there are fewer
than 10.000 Germans.
We have said the purport of these sta
tistics Is not entirely pleasing to Germany.
That is because with all this loss of Its
subjects the empire is building up no tribu
tary states. It is colonizing alien lands,
but Is planting no colonies of its own.
These millions of exiles are lost to the
fatherland. They have not created a state
or a single town that can be added to Ger
many. It was the misfortune of Germany
that she entered upon her so-called co'onlal
policy at too late a date. The eligible parts
of tha earth. In which Important colonies
might be planted and developed, were al
ready pre-empted. There was nothing left
for her but tropical wildernesses in which
at best she could maintain military posts
and a few traders, and maintain them not
for profit, but at a heavy cost. She has
acquired a vast colonial area, but shs Is
unable to direct toward It any- considerable
part of her great stream of migration,
which continue to go to alien lands.
Masranatailty t aapprectaten.
Washington Post
"Japan la entitled to tha fruits of her
victory ,M says England. It will be re
membered that It la Japan's, not Russia's,
bonds that art held In England,
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ROIXD ADOVT KEW YORK.
Ripples on the Current of Life in the
Metropolis.
Natives of "little old New Yauk" are
slow to admit that the city furnishes Its
full quota of "easy marks" for every game
played by sharpers. Even in affairs mat
rimonial It is conceded to be a clover
patch for modern Bluebeards. "Those who
think," writes a correspondent of the Pitts
burg Dispatch, "that New York girls are
wiser than their sisters of the west need
only study the news columns of recent
date to find disillusionment. The Wtts
hoffs, Hochr and Carltons found the great
est number of their victims right here in
Oreater New York. What alls the women,
anyway t As men go there are plenty
of them in the world and plenty who,
If they would not make Ideal husbands,
would at least draw the line at desertion,
robbery and sudden death. Borne of these
are going up and down the earth wifeless
and not a woman will look at them. Hoch
has a thick neck and a low brow. Carl
ton has a disagreeable face If ever a man
had such a thing. Wltshoff, as the latest
a'nd apparently the most successful of the
three, shows a soda water countenance,
which need not have turned the head of
a shop girl. He Is no longer young and
he wlghs 190 pounds."
Upon 3,300 firemen In Greater New York is
placed the responsibility of defending from
flames 4,000,000 people, about 300,000 build
ings, and these extending over more than
iOt.OOQ acres of ground, says Leslie's Weekly.
Within the city limits of the metropolis is
area enough for more than 1600 farms of
eighty acres each, and were the space al
lotted equally among the fire-fighting force,
each man in the department would be re
sponsible for sixty-five acres of ground. But
the fl rehouses, of course, are not distributed
according to territory, but according to the
height and density of buildings and the con
gestion of population, fire companies being
located more closely together nearest the
apex of the Island. .
The pay of the firemen of the metropolis
Is not small. The salary of the chief Is
$6,000 a year; of the deputy chiefs, of which
there are five, $4,200 a year; of the battalion
chiefs, of which there are seventeen, $3,300
a year; of captains of companies, $2,1'W;
lieutenants, $1,800; engineers, $1,600; firemen,
first ' grade, $1,400; firemen, second grade,
$1,200; firemen, third grade, $1,000; firemen,
fourth grade, $800; firemen on probation,
$800.' The term of probation of the fireman
Is thirty days. When that Is over he be
comes a fireman of the fourth grade, and
advances year by year to first grade.
After twenty years of service In the de
partment a fireman may retire on half pay.
His retirement is not compulsory, however,
If he Is able to perform his duties; and
there are New York firemen who have
been In the department much more than a
quarter of a century, and are still in active
service. Tha regulations require that the
man who becomes a fireman in New York
must be 21 years of age and not over 30.
A forty-story hotel will Boon be con
structed In Thirty-second street, west of
Broadway, on the site of the old "House
of All Nations." When this structure Is
completed it will be the highest hotel
building in tha world and one of the most
magnificent. The Pennsylvania railroad
terminal when finished will be only one
half block distant from the hotel, and it
Is expected to furnish the hundreds of
patrons necessary to make the big hotel a
success.
Albert J. Adams, formerly known as the
"policy king," who recently went to Mex
ico, saying he would spend the remainder
of his days there and devote his large
fortune to investment purposes for tho
benefit of his children, Is at the head of a
syndicate that will conduct the operation
and which haa been already capitalized at
$6,000,000.
It is understood he will not return to this
country even to see the structure when it
shall have been completed, preferring to
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to others.
The plans have so far progressed that
bids for the work rvlll be advertised for in
a few days. The property is situated 176
feet west of Sixth avenue, at Its Juncture
with Broadway, in Thirty-second street.
Its ground dimensions are 125 feet width
and 200 feet depth, running through to
Thirty-third street. Borings show that the
best of rock foundations can be found
within thirty feet of the present surfaco
and that the sky-scraper unsurpassed any
where on earth can be built with absolute
safety.
There will be accommodations In tha hotel
for 2,2)10 patrons, which will make it the
largest In the world in that respect. Five
hundred single rooms with bath will bo
provided and in every suite of parlor, bed
room and bath will be a refrigerator box
for wines and provisions. All the beds
are to be brass and the furniture will be
of mahogany. Another novelty will bo
iced water for drinking purposes "laid on"
in every room.
PASSI.VCJ PLEASANTRIES.
"De man dat don't cam his salt," said
Uncle then, "Is very often de one data
mos' purtie'lar 'bout havin' beefsteak an'
pie." Washington Star.
Old Mortality was freshening up the Il
legible inscriptions on the ancient tomb
stones.
"1 merely wish to show." he explained
to the curious bystanders, "that there is
nothing esxentlally new iu modern fiction."
Chlcugo Tribune.
First Girl Did you enjoy your rids In
George's new auto?
Second Girl 1 should say so. I was com
pletely carried away with It. Milwaukee
Sentinel.
"Do you think that Industry is essential
to hapiilness?"
"A little is," answered the easy-going
person. "If a man had never done any
work he would never realize how mucii
comfort there is in having none to do."
Washington Star.
"Miss Oldun is an ideal baohelor raald.
She cares nothing about men."
"Is that so? Now let me tell you some
thing. I picked Up her prayer book yes
terday, and It fell open naturally at the
marriage service." Cleveland Leader.
"Poor fellow! His doctor tells him the
only thins that will cure him is a course
of mud baths, and he can't afford to go to
the mud springs,"
"Hut surely ne can go Into politics and
let the mud come to him." Philadelphia
Ledger.
The young mother gazed upon her first
born, and wept convulsively. They appealed
to her to know why her great grief.
"Alabi" she wailed, as with intensest
agony, "I'm afraid he will wear side whisk
ers when he grows up!" Drowning s Maga
slna. "I suppose," said the facetious stranger,
watching a workman spread a carpet from
the church door to the curb, "that's the
high road to heaven you're fixing there."
"No," replied the man. "this is meroly a
bridal path." Philadelphia Press.
WHEN VACATION IS OVER,
Back to the city, vacation is o'er.
Back to the hurry, the bustle and roar.
When of the trolley, the clatter of street.
Fast changing stream of the vast crowd
you meet.
Back to the close air, the dust and the
grime,
Back to the clamor, the drainage of time.
Where life is gauged by the stroke of the
clock.
Where brain and muBcle are capital stock.
Back to the office, the shop and the store.
Freeman no longer, a prls ner Indoor,
Back to the barter, the toil and the strain.
Buck to the cenHelean, wild struggle for
gain.
Back to the pulpit, the liar and the bench.
And to the. things that give heartstrings a
wrench.
Back to tho school room, the desk and
tho nen.
Poring o'er problems and grievance or
men.
Back to the, steady, the ev'ryday grind.
Hack to the tension of body and mind.
Back where the days flow 111 swift, endless
stream,
Back when the summer has passed like a
dream. m
Schuyler, Neb. CORA A. THOMPSON.
less than four yv
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in this standard
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