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TTIE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15. 1905. Tite Omaha Daily Bee. E. ROBE WATER, KD1TOR. PUBLISHED EVERT MORNINO. TERM 8 or SUBSCRIPTION: Pall Be without Sunday), on year. ..14 "0 Dally Bee nd Sunday, one year .' Illustrated Bee. one rr Swnday one year J Saturday F. one year J w' Twentieth Oe-ntury Krtni-r, one 'r.. l.w DELIVERED BT CARRIER: fully Pe (without Sunday), per ropy.. 2c Tally. Rea (without Sunday per we.-K..l.c Dally lie (Including Sunday), per week l,u Evening Bee (without Sunday), per " ia Evening Iee (including Sunday). tr wwk 'j? Sunday Bee, r copy Complaint of Irregularities In delivery should be addressed to City Circulation De partment. OmCES: Omaha The Bee Building. ' South Omaha-City Hall Building. Twenty-fifth and M itwti. Council Bluffa 10 Pearl street. Chlcego-IMO Unity Building. New Tora 1500 Home Llie Insurance Building. . Washington -601 Fourteenth street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to newa and edi torial matter should be addressed; Omaiia Bee. Editorial-Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or poatftl order, r-ayatde to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 1-eent stamps received In payment of mall aocountn. Personal checks, except tin Omaha or enstern exchangee, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate cf Nebraska, Douglas County, as : George B. TiachucH, treasurer of The Bee Publishing Company, telna duly 'orn: ay that the actual number of full ana complete copies of The Dally. Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the 1 UK,01M I UW.OM 1 2T.BNO 2,MO S 8I,30 no.oso 7 3O,M0 I ik,n I i,no 10 xit.etso a 3,ooo II 81,310 1.1 &0.220 14 8O.01O 13 i...lM,9MO 16 IW.BM Totals Lea unsold copies . i; 30,000 1 80,050 1 81,470 gO StO.STO 2i a.o 22 80,000 ii 30,110 24 30.100 25 80,110 2 81,720 27 ao.oao S 80,100 29 aa,i:so 30 UO.T10 81 SO.B60 ...oao.aso ... 11,110 Net total sales 91H.i4.14 Dally average sni.tMO GEORGE B. TZ8CHUCK. Treasurer. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before in this list, day of August. (Seal) M. B. UUNOATE, Notary Public WHEN out or town. abaorlhera leaving; the city tens porailly should have The Bee mailed to theaa. It la better than m dally letter froaa home. A dreea will be changed aa altea aa reaaested. If veterans of tha war with ltussla hurry t Toklo they may find their ex perience useful to tlie police force. Ak-Sar-Ben is putting on the finishing touches for tbe greatest demonstration ivtr witnessed in Nebraska's metropolis. With crops conservatively estimated t a value of 150,000,0x), Nebraska farmers can even laugh at the Coul trust Some people would like to know when that red tile roof is to replace the tem porary tar paper cover of the Audi torium. When Omaha paving contractors com plete tbe work laid out for them this fall tbey will be able to retire on comfortable incomes. In his coutest with cholera Emperor William 4-au wtyi those honors which he failed to secure by not stopping the war to the Orient . No one can doubt the entire enlighten ment of Japan since its capitalists an nounce the formation of a combination to exploit Asia. There is some consolation in the re flection that Omani newspapers are not menaced by a printers' strike during the present season. Dr. Angell blames the public for foot ball games at colleges; but the public mill not care as long as it is permitted to tee the mangled players. The plot to assassinate the king of Hervla comes in time to renew Interest In the Balkan situation, which suffered materially at the hands of the Japanese, A feeling of fellowship between Rus sian and Japunese editors should be na tural, since three Toklo newspapers have been suspended for criticising the peace treaty. A 3nO,00O,OU)-bushel corn crop, mar ketable St good prices, bodes no good for lh popocratic party in Nebraska, which thrives onl when the producers are ln lard lines. The advent of the slgual corps in fmaha ln the midst of a storm would ustlfy suspicion that the weatlfer bureau has taken offense at its intrusion west of the Missouri. Tbe Real Estate exchange has made Bo mistake ln endorsing Mr. Ure for eounty commissioner, although Mr. Ure bad made a mistake in making his po litical bed with the Fontsnelles. Now that it has been decided that In Alan funds in banks can be taxed it 1 probable that fee grabbing will not be s popular in Thurston county as when White men bad to foot all bills. A worm which destroys ornnges has been' found. It is probable that it ha been at work for ages, but since It has been discovered the public may look for n advance in the price of the fruit. Manufacturers of patent medicines who do sot desire to puy tax as recti flers of liquor should see tbat the color nd taste of the liquor is concealed be yond the detective powers of the average gauger. since tne raiiromis or .Nebraska are not having mail weighed for government contract estimates during tbe present heavy movement of cigarette papers is probaMe that congressional frank will be compelled to do duty again at ti washing Uujo. . rue iMMiariATloH QttaTWX. I There are Indications that the Imml- gration question will again command the attention of congress at the coming ses- sion. The unprecedented record of lust year s alien arrivals has had the effect of revlvlDg the detuand for further re- strlctlve legislation and those who favor this ure losing no opportunity to urge It I upon public consideration. "Tire whole country," declares nn eastern paper in sympathy with the ami Immlgratlonlsta, I should be keenly alive to the absolute necesslty of restricting immigration. I The incoming flood of Europe's scum has grown to such proportions that it must be carefully studied from many points of View by the approaching con- gress." This Is a sample of what may be ex- pected from the advocates of restriction from now on to the end of the next ses-1 slon of congress, coupled with lurid warnings of the danger to the political, moral and social welfare of the more than eighty millions of our people if something drastic Is not done to check the foreign accretion to our population. Yet it Is not shown that this so-called scum Is in anybody's way or that it has caused any trouble. There being a demand for the labor which it supplies a demand 1 which for several years it has been dif- flcult to meet, especially In the west the I coming of these aliens has undeniably been a benefit. Whether or not they brought much of anything with them other than the ability to work, they have as a whole add;'d something to the I wealth of the country. Perhaps among them there were a few who were un- worthy of admission, but it would be a serious reflection won the care and vigilance of the Immigration authorities to assume that any considerable number got In In violation of the law. The gen- eral understanding is that the immlgro-1 tlon regulations were never more rigidly enforced than at present, so that there is small chance of what can properly be called "scum" getting into the country through the regular channels. But In the eves of those who would shut out immigration pretty much all labor that onies here from abroad is regarded as HCUin. Meanwhile there is nn urgent call from the south for white labor. It is wanted n the factories of that section and for the development of Its resources. Not ong ngo a convention of southern plant- rs and manufacturers and railroad men was held In the nntional capital, the chief object of which was to discuss plans for attracting more white labor to the southern states. They cannot obtain native labor and would welcome that from abroad. The south does not and will not oppose immigration. Neither will the west, which could use more labor than Is now to be had. It is not ln these sections that hostility to imml- grutlou exists to any great extent, but In the enst. where the alien population Is congested in cities and Is rapidly in- creasing. It cannot be denied that this Is n very undesirable condition, but it is not a sufficient reason for shutting out immigratlon, if it can be of benefit to the rest of the country, as it has been In the rmsf. There is but one thing that congress should do in regard to imml- gration and thnt Is to provide some plan for the better distribution of the immi- grants. If this were done there would be fewer aliens remain in the larger r-IHos and n chief cause of the existing hostility to immigration would be re- moved. BATTLESHIP ACCWEKTS. The sinking of Admiral Togo's flag- hip Mlkusa in the Sea of Japan will not merely be deplored by the people of I Japan, but will evoke universal eym- .....!... . ,1 ... I 1 nv.,. ) . 1. . . . . I !.uw, lwl aujju nuu lue seamen wno regaraea ine great Dattie- snip who patriotic pnue. yuue apart from the fact that tne llikosa was one of the most formidable battleships afloat it had passed the nery orueal or. all tne tierce engagements o the Uusso-Japa- nese war and had been, moreover, the center of the greatest naval battle of our times. Incidentally the sinking of the Mikasa in the Sea of Japan recalls the destruc- Hon of the Maine !n the Harbor of Ha- vana and the more recent accident to tbe Bennington ou Uie Taclflc coast It has become an open secret that the destine-1 tlon of. the Maine, like the fatal exDlo sion of the Bennington and the disaster that has overtaken the greatest of Jana- nese battleships, was not due to any conspiracy either by the Spaniards or by the Cubans, but to avoidable accidental rnroipttaneaa The modern iron and steel-clad war vessel of the battleship type may with stand a terrific cannonade from without aud yet succumb to the dropping of a match, the careless handling of a kero seue lamp or a defective electric light or , i m. . . i ' ii . . 1"'"" uggeBuoo uiai me Mikasa might have been exploded by a Japanese anarchist in sailor garb is hardly worthy of serious thought The ... , . .. . v.t, i u lbt marines, may reel disappointed or even ludiKnant over the concessions made bv it,. . . ....... .u.n...v, .u urc I l J Ul ! nun uusk.u, nut u is not conceivai le Unit a Japanese sailor Mould apply the match to -the magazine of his battleshlD In or- der to emphasize his pent-up feelings. ,. .... . " j ue more piauRiDie explanation is that conveyed through the dispatches that have reached us from Japan, namely, thnt the destruction of the Mikasa was purely accidental. The anti-pass movement will come to nothing unless it culminates in a strenu ous anti-pass law and a drastic anti-pass law must exclude from the privilege of free transportation delegates to political conventions as well as candidates for office and office holders. The inevitable effect of such a law, if honestly enforced by public officials and lived up to by the r.llroada. wo.,1,1 r.rl.,ti-i ..-. " ' v ------- . v. uuvrui7 1'irillliai conventions, in Nebtaska. Instead of one delegate, to every 100 voters, and conventions with from l.OfX) to 1,500 del egstes, the conventions of the future wguld be wade up of one delegate tor every BOO or even l.ooo voters, and a cor responding reduction in the number of delegates to conventions which of late have grown to be political mobs or more like large herds of sheep, with a few bellwethers to lend them wherever they please. ABOLISH t'A VoHtt fHltTE RS. The way railroads can best favor ship pers is by giving all shippers a square deal. The greatest abuse of railroad management heretofore has been dls- crimination in favor of oue class of ship pers and disfavor toward another class. This pernicious system had Its origin in the silent partnerships of high railroad officials In concerns that were built up and enriched by rebates and drawbacks. that found their way Into the pockets of these officials In the shape of dividends. This is the secret of the concession made to tlje Standard Oil trust, the Steel trust, the owners of gold mines, copper mines, the Smelter tmst, the Grain trust, the Sleeping Car trust and express com panics and fast freight lines. Incident ally, a class of favored shippers was created through the political Affiliation of Jobbers, manufacturers and bankers with the railroad managers who utilised their Influence in dominating local state and national politics The railroad regulation wave that is sweeping the country is simply the reao tlou that has followed in the wake of flagrant abuses on the part of public car rlers. Whenever the railroad magnates turn their faces firmly against the ap peals of favored shippers for dlscrlml natlng concessions t.o which they are not entitled, and when every patron is placed ou an equal footing with every other patron, the popular discontent with rail- roads will be allayed and railroad regu latlon will cease to be a burning Issue, always providing that the railroad traffic managers shall also abandon the policy of charging what the traffic will bear. Instead of being content with fair freight land passenger tolls. " henever promoters who want a franchise for P"bc utility start out with Uie announcement that they would n vvf.it n un iiiuinc it, it is lu tuni them any money for log-rolling it tnrougn tne city uau mere is always a suspicion thnt they either contemplate the other thing or else that they are piny In a bluff on the other company. At . that has been Omaha s expert eqce in the past. Only a few months & pt of electric light promoters fe to Omaha with an offer to illumi- nate the town at a much lower rate than the electric light company was charging, providing they could get a franchise. With due solemnity they also announced thnt they did not intend to pay out a dollar for connecting with the city coun- pH- When the proposition reached the serious stage they failed to materialise and there is a well grounded suspicion that their visit to Omaha was a precon certea scneme to siuetracK municipal ownership. By the same sign the dollar gas prospectus will not be taken sert- ously until it reaches the actual perform- "nee stage. There ,9 a w" d('ue(, n,mor thHt Jblr9 ln lron bar9 ar bini the P" ,1UCB' "creen XTm to Put xne nrm 01 B'oateh & McDonald, their most active competitors In the heavy iron trade, out of "'ness by boosting one to sreome hherlff of Douglas county and tbe other mayor of Omaha. Not a solitary injunction or mandamus has been ground out by the wnter board nr the water romnnnv xrithln th nsit wk hut .Dnrrfl' nd lhft ,nwr. ho are mllkln(f tte watPr workg mw whlle their clients are pulling at the borne gnd the tall will not let it rest tnere very ,on)r The governor of Indiana removed the state auditor because he invested public funds for private gain. It may seem strange to some Nebrasknns to think that he did not wait until the party con ventlon spoke on the subject. When all the new buildings now under wny and projected are completed and all the pavements already under contract and to be contracted for are laid the new Omaha will not be recognizable by the newest inhabitant, I a - . . "ussian investors announce tneir in tentlon or returning to Corea; but it Is Probable that they will now beg where tne recently mnAe demands; but this w1'1 PbaMy be of little advantage to the Cores ns Weary of Crow Diet. St. Louis Republic. Naturally enough, Llnevltch s men greeted peace effusively. The dove Is preferable to the crow any day under such clrcum stances. I Mitol Seit ( m.. J Kansas City Times. I The term "mutual benefit," as applied to OTn" lnuranc companies, has taken on a greatly restricted meaning In the light of ,n jr.ftjng prftcticed by officers and dl rectors. "' Aatirat Treataneat, W.hlntnn Pn.t The depressing news comes from Oyster I Bay that tbe president Is taking on neali again. Still, he may once more get back ,0, ""T""1 tr,,m "f h" h" re"u"r winter's wrestle with the senate. Xo Reaaoa for a Gradge. Baltimore American. It Is said that the Spanish people hold no grudge against ua. It would be atranga If they did. considering that we took their troublesome colonlea off their hands, and I r&,l them handsomely for allowing ua to do them that' favor. From ' the Spanish point of view, the United States ought to I be looked on as a special providence. Great Saaltary Aaoat. Chicago Chronicle, T . I waImV,! Im that th fhanrv m A practice of bacteriology have been carried to absurd lengths by enthusiasts, but th cl,'nca naa accomplished nothing save "r "Ptherla It would Justify all the eneonlums of its devotees. Under the antitoxin treatment, which Is the result of bacteriological work, the diphtheria death rate In Chloago has been reduced from 1897 per 10,000 to 104 per 10.000. The p..r ima k for llaelf and conatltitea rsufflcieut auswor to aligns Jests and Jits ems of them good-natured and others not that have been directed at the germ theory. Bacteriology has proved Its right to a place among the great sanitary agencies of the century. To When Roane Credit Is Dae. Cincinnati Enquirer. The credit for bringing about peace will soon be so widely distributed that It will be difficult to tell who Is chiefly responsi ble. Perhaps, after All has been said and dona. It will turn out that Oyama Is the responsible man. Profitable Reciprocity. Philadelphia Record. By latest accounts the mutual Insurance companies In New fork are not operated on the mutual plan. It la only the direc tors of the companies that act toward each other on this reciprocal plan when It comes to a distribution of spoils. A Parting Salate. Chicago News. Mr. Bryan Is going sround the world. He does not seem to know yet whether he will be a candldAte for president in 10S. Perhaps he will he able to obtain a clearer vision Into the future when he gets some thousands 'of miles away from American politics. The American publto wishes him a prosperous journey wherever he may happen to be going and a safe re turn, with more banquets and more demo cratic speeches to follow. Watch Oat for a Joker. Springfield (Mass.) Republican. Senator Elklns. who Is to frame an ad ministration railroad rate measure, says ln a New York Interview that he would create a United States court to which all rate disputes should be referred and disposed of. This would leave to the Interstate Commerce commission little excuse for ex istence, and practically constitute no ad vance from the present situation In gov ernment control of rates. For the United States courts now decide such rate dis putes as are appealed to them from the commission. The Elklns bill will be worth watching. If It does not conceal a slaable railroad "Joker." to the practical destruc tion of effective government control, a good many people will be surprised. MILLIONS GO IT IX IMOKR The Mosey We Barn at the Shrine of l.ady Klrotlae, New York Sun. Tobacco Leaf reports the manufacture In this country during the fiscal year ended June 80, 190B, of 7,689,887,207 cigars, an in crease of 1S6.0W.437 over the output of the preceding year. Our export trade In these goods Is quite insignificant, and compared with this enormous total our import trade n foreign, made cigars Is little more than an Inconsiderable Incident. Our population of males who may be regarded as of "cigar age" Is probably a little less than 24,000,000. Our domestic output was sufficient to sup ply each one of these with about 830 smokes during the year. As the census returns do not include statistics of smokers and non- smokers, It Is impossible to carry the calcu lation beyond that point. The cigarette crop for the year was 8.368,212,740, an increase of 111,630,479 over 104. We produced 21,181,861 pounds of snuff. an Increase of 947,281 pounds. The output of smoking and chewing tobacco Increased only about i per cent. from 828,650.71 pounds to SS4.4S9.110 pounds. The total value of all this Is not given, but the fig ures of the smaller output of that year are given by the census of 1900 as follows: Tobaccco, chewing, smoking and snuff 8108,7M.3fii Tobacco, cigars and cigarette 160,2:3.1S2 Total $268,977,614 The development of this Industry Is Indi cated by the census figures, which show the value of the product for 1880 as tllB.- 772,631; for 1890 as 1IS3.S3,C2, and for 1900 as f263,977,E14. ' The Increase for last year 111 certainly bring the. figures to more than 1300,000,000, which is a very pretty sum to spend for this form of combustibles, Compared with our domestlo trade our foreign commerce ln the weed amounts to little. Our total Importation last year of tobacco In all Its forma amounted to $22,145,846 and our exportation to $37,123,514. Estimating our consumption by weight. It appears that we burned at the shrine of our I-ady Nicotine something like 300,900 tons of tobacco last year. MOVING THE CHOPS. Soma Idea of the Irauseaslty of Amer lea's Aa-rlealtaral Wealth. New Tork Tribune. There are certain countries which have renowned places lr. history, and even In current world poll'.ics, of whose agricultural resources It is entirely practicable to ob tain an accurate view when they are mar shalled In figures. But the figures as to the grain crop, for Instance, of the United States require something more by way of elucidation In order that their full Import may be grasped. This desideratum has been supplied by railroad statisticians who have been studying the work their Com panles will be called upon to do. Their estimate of that part of the great grain crop for which they will have to provide moving facilities Is 1,500,000 carloads. They have further figured It out that were all this grain marketed at once It would re. quire a solid train of freight cars, with the 17,000 locomotives necessary to move It, whose total length would be 11.9S6 miles, or half the circumference of the earth. Put ln other terms, the cars and engines would practically occupy every foot of four parallel tracks stretching from New York to the Oolden Gate. Naturally, a Urge part of the enormous grain crop of 19ta will not have to be moved In freight cars. Much of It will be consumed on the farms by the farmers own families and by the livestock, as In many caaea It will be more profitable to dispose of It In that way than to send It to market by rail..- Another large part will be hauled from the farms to the neighbor ing towns and cities for local use. The remainder, about one-third of the total crop, will tax to the utmost the railway facilities of the country and drain the banks of smaller cities and towns to move It; and this In turn will cause a movement of money from tbe great financial centers of New York and the east such, in fact as has already been going on for weeks to Chicago, Duluth and Omaha and other western elites which act as distributing centers for the money to start the crops to market. Were all this grain put upon the market at once the railroads would literally be swamped and the banks drained of money. Fortunately the large crops of recent years and the continued prosperity of the country have left the farmers with money In the banks, and tha marketing of their gain will be rather largely a matter of convenience rather than of necessity Yet even under these circumstances the railroads are making unparalleled prep aratlons for the enormous task of moving the big crops of 1906. Descending to particulars and to In dividual states, the statisticians say the wheat and oats crop of Minnesota and ths Dakotas alone - will aggregate 336,000,000 bushels, et which the railroads will be required to move 190,000.000 bushels. They place the total yield of corn at 8,Mt.OOO,000 bushels, of which 7S0.0O0.9O0 will probably have to be hauled to market by the rail roads. On this basis from these three states alone there will be 4,13 tralnkads of forty cars each, of wheat and oats and 10.000 tratnloads of forty cars each of corn. The statisticians give other figures and other ways of conveying to the mind some Idea of the Immensity of America's agri cultural wealth, but these wilt suffice to show on what a solid foundation America's preterit is basedj BITS OF WASHINGTON 1,1 FB. Minor Scenes and Incidents Sketched oa the Spot. When the old and new members of the congress get together for business next lecember notable changes ln the Interior decoration of the national rapltol will greet their eyes. Greatest of the many altera tions are ln the rotunda and dome. All the paint on the Interior has been scraped off and the original ssndstone restored. The effect Is pleasing, as the historical figures have been brought out In clearer outline. The Interior of the dome has been repainted. The skylights on the senate and hause have been enlarged by extensions of ten feet on each side. The effect will be particularly noticeable from the galleries, for the extenslona completely cover them. So much of the chimneys as projected above the roof have been taken away and a nrced draft Is created for the flues by electric motors, the chimneys being made to connect with a pipe ten Inches In dlam- ter, through which the smoke Is forced. The other Improvements are ln the su preme court library, the house folding room and a number ef the committee rooms. The Interior of the law library has been done over in white. All pine doors and furniture have been removed and mahognay substi tuted so far as possible ln commutes rooms. When congress reassembles the new bronze doors at the entrance to the house wing will be ln position. The doors for the main entrance to the senate wing were hung In 18, but ths house doors were not authorised until 1908. They cost $47,000 and were cast at the same foundry In Chlcopee, Mass., where the other doors were made before the civil war. In trying to place them recently one of ths doors fell and was broken, but will be replaced and hung when congress meets. Throughout the Interior of the capltol all traces of calcimine have been removed so far as possible and the Italian Renais sance has been restored. The senate will have a new green carpet and the house of representatives one of red. Readjustment of seats has been necessary In the house. The last time the hall of representatives was remodeled space was afforded for plac ing 400 seats, and these are not all occupied. mam v , With closs Interest the Navy department Is watching the experiment the Oerman navy Is conducting to determine the effi ciency of the gyroacope aa an agency to overcome variations of the mariner's com pass due to magnetic storms, the effect of the armor or electrical machlnery sboard modern warships, or to any influ ence other than that of the magnetic pole. Experiments of a similar nature will prob ably be undertaken In the American navy, but the gyroscope has not yet reached a development which promises that It will replace the compass ln navigation. The Oerman warship Undine was equipped with gyroscopic appliances, which were subjected to what was designed to approxl mate service conditions. The purpose of this was to determine whether the shock of battle would disarrange the apparatus, The ehlp on the first day of the experi ments made a curving course. No devia tion was detected ln the position of the gyroscope. Several slight errors In the po sition of the buoys were detected by the gyroscope. These buoys had been set to detect errors In the operation of the gyro sco?e. The Undine was suddenly stopped when steaming under forced draft and guns were fired. In various other ways the gyroscope was subjected to the heaviest possible shock. Comparison of the Instrument with the amplitude compass followed, and con saltation of a deviation table Indicated errors up to 1.5 degrees, presumably at tributable to the gyroscope, but It was shown that this deviation was due to the disturbances of the coefficients of deviation, due presumably to the concussion of firing. The new $20 gold certificates which the officials of the bureau of engraving say is a great improvement over the old bill has a portrait of Washington In the center. Tills Is surrounded by an ornamental bor der with a background of Intricate lathe work, displaying denominational counters so arranged that no matter how the cer tificate may be placed In a pile of bank notes, the teller can readily determine its denomination. The essential thing In connection with bank notes Is, the officials say, to make them aa difficult as possible to counterfeit. With this end ln view the underlying tint ln yellow was used, and It was so ar ranged aa to produce the figures "20" at the top and the words "In gold coin" at the bottom, In apparently a deeper shade of yellow than the tint. It is aald that the design of this certificate Is the most dim cult to counterfeit of any so far issued by the government. The experiment of obtaining designs of notes from artists wae made some years ago, but the Judgment of the bankers was that, while they were beautiful pictures. tney were not bank notes. The soft walls, pillars, cornices snd ether portions of the east front of the treasury building have been slowly crumbling for years, and it Is only a question of tfrne when that part of the historic building will ran to pieces, reports the Washington Star Three or four years ago the sandstone plates that held the upper part of the giant pillars began crumbling so faat that It was found necessary to take them out alto gether snd replace them with steel plates, If this had not been done the entire upper part or the portico might have fallen In any minute. Since then pieces of the cor nlces have fallen away, and, worse than all, practically all of the balustrade above the portico crumbled to pieces and had to be replaced with wooden Imitation pieces. The east front is, therefore, a patched up affair, composed of sandstone, steel plates and wooden balustrade. The patching con tinues, aa It is necessary to be making re pairs at all times. An Inspector goes over that part of the building right along. Various officials of the Treasury depart ment are urging Secretary Shaw to recom mend to congress at the coming session an appropriation to replace all the sandstone used ln the east front of the structure wit it granite, and Secretary Shaw has the mat ter under advisement. The supervising architect of the treasury has been con suited, and his estimate Is that It will take $360,000 to do the work. Ilia opinion Is that It the aandstone is not replaced before I great while some serious accident may hap pen, as the aandstone crumbles away In big pieces at times. Waahlngton correspondents complain that It Is extremely hard to get Information at the Postofflce department. Less talk and more work la a characterlstlo of Post master Oeneral Cortelyou. Mr. Cortclyou himself gives out what Information he de sires ln prepared type-written statements which are extremely brief and carefully worded. The postofflce of all departments except perhaps the treasury, has been peculiarly open to the public, with Its man! fold Inquires. Now, all bureau chiefs and heads of divisions are as silent as ths grave. They dare not be seen talking on the weather If any relation between It and office policies can be detected. The mucl lage buyers would dlsouss moist weather with great caution. From long practice, various routine Information has been given out like the creation of new star routes, at the offices where this work Is attended to. This has all bee a changed. The bureau man who has any routine Information that the publlo cannot be deprived of having now poets a notice on his door saying that the statement In question caa be obtained from the private saarstary to toe post waster general. , THE SIStL POSTM. A Growing tndoenee for Good la tne Affairs of the Coaatry. St. Ionia Republic. Men went to the postofflce for their own mall In Franklin's time, and went often before the expected letter came. Not until long after FYanklln was there free delivery. even In Philadelphia, largest of American cltlrs. Rural delivery was not dreamed of, not even In Frsnklln's broad philosophy. Our more than on9 miles of rsllroad mall routes and our nearly 7',(V,0 miles of rural delivery routes are things the pre diction of which rostmaetef ' General Franklin could never have believed. Thirty-three thousand rsall carriers dally riding a circuit f twenty miles to deliver at the gates of farmers the latest newa of the world, along with letters on which the Ink Is hardly dry. Is a proposition not so readily grasped even In this age of big things In tills big Country. But that was the numhof rural delivery routes In the United States on September 1. Missouri had nearly l,7no of them and Illinois 2,Boo, Kansas 1.500, Tennessee and Texas about 1,400 each. It will not be long before the number of routes Is raised to 40O. and the service will then still be In Its Infancy. What stupendous proportions It will take on when it shall cover all parts of the country as completely as does the rural mall delivery of Great Britain staggers Imagination. The standard for a rural delivery route Is inn families, and that number may be taken as the averAgai though some routes have only eighty-five, while the maximum runs to 150. Thus we have 1.300,000 families served by the rural carriers, and counting five to a family we have 16,500,000 people receiving mall from the rural carriers. That Is seven or eight times as many aa there were In all the colonies when Frank lin was postmaster general. The rural mall route Is a great promoter of good country roads. The dally round of the carrier breaks the monotony of lonely farm life snd brings the farmer and the town man closer together in a way that is good for both. THI5 GO VERS M EXT rt'HE-AIX. Colonel Bryan Accused of Chasing False Gods. Cincinnati Enquirer (dem.). Colonel William J. Bryan, In his Labor day address at Omaha, suggested that there should be In every state a board with power to Investigate every labor dispute whenever either party demanded it. That's the old heretical story. Whenever ' there Is a trouble between laborer and employer. dispute about wagea or anything re quiring adjustment, call ln the govern ment as the arbitrator and peace-maker. The government Is everything, according to those who have failed In every theory of political economy they have ever em braced. The government, they think, must take charge of the people and run their affairs for them. It Is amaslng to hear of Colonel Bryan, who has twice been the presidential candidate of a party the chief tenet of which used to be simplicity In government, running off after such a false god. How long would a government last that would undertake the solution of all the social problems, all the questions of morality and all the disputes between capital and labor? The country Is not going to smash because there Is frequent restlveness between employers and em ployes. Government was not Instituted to take charge of matters Of that kind. If our state and national governments ever get fairly set ln that sort of business they will Soon be trying to settle matters of orthodoxy Id religion. There always have been labor disputes and there always must be. The business world Is organised In a spirit of contention. One side Is always trying to get things cheaper and ths other side wants higher prices. . Every house holder Is In Imminence of a "break" with the tailor, butcher and grocer, and every woman Is always trying to get under the fifth rib of the extortionist who keeps the department store. Of course, the fewer disputes sthd strikes there are the better, but there always will be many of them, and government will be a complicated and unwieldy machine when It goes Into the general business of arbitration. It Will be then that there will be need Indeed of a "big stick." PERSONAL ROTES. A man In Colorado bored for oil snd felt broken up because he only struck silver. General A. J. 81mpson, United States minister to Ecuador, traveled a distance of 2,000 miles to attend the O. A. R. reunion In Denver, last Week. John Q. Packard, a pioneer miner of Utah, la tha donor of Bait Lake City's new public, library. He first gave $75,000 and subsequently Increased his gift to $125,000. David Graham Phillips, the novelist. Is spending several months abroad. He has been traveling chiefly through France and will probably return to this country early In the winter. The author of "Mrs. Wlggs of the Cab bage Patch" is the largest stockholder of a new national bank Just organised In Louisville. Farmers have always under stood that there was money in cabbages, but not all of them have been as successful as she has In getting it out. Assistant Secretary of tha Treasury Hor ace A. Taylor, who brought out John C. Spooner and groomed him for the senatorial race, and was Indirectly responsible tor tha election of "Uncle Jerry" Rusk three times as governor of Wisconsin, Is the founder of a prosperous Wisconsin town and owns a great share of another. When a farmer lad, late In the fifties, he plunged Into the Wisconsin forest, $8 and a gun were all his worldly possessions, and his first vocation was driving a stage coach. jj 3L fS "t23 y- r- 9 m rjti .'A ' Ayers Hair Vigor is a hair-food. It feeds the hair and the hair grows. That's all there is to it. And it is a splendid tonic to the hair, giving the hair follicles tone and strength. This is why it checks falling hair so promptly, As a dressing, it keeps the hair soft and smooth and prevents splitting at the ends. Maoe k C. arer Ce . Lewaii, aire bMhAmkhi er ATt'" CHSMT FCT01t- miU. 2isa SSBAAFAklUA-Vor Us ktoad. KEEP THE RAII.ROr OUT. Slogan of the Yellowstone National Park Commissioner. New York Bun. As Is well known, the national govern ment has thus far refused resolutely t sanction the construction of any railways In the Yellowstone park. What the trav ler sees there he must see from a stage or surrey, or from horseback, or on foot. The regular stage Journey occupies five and a half days. It In none too long and the rate of travel none too slow if the visitor desires to carry away with him any abiding Impression of the wonderful beauty. ' grandeur and variety of the scenery. Yet the cry le constantly heard sntnng the throng of tourists. "Oh. how much nicer It would be If,' we only had a stesm railroad or a trolly here. We rould see the whole thing In one day." Of course, the more thoughtful traveler does not gree with this view. Ho reallr.es that ths value of the reservation as a park for ths benefit and recreation of the peopln de mands a slower, Introduction to Its attrac tions and a longer sojourn among them than could be had upon a rallwhy excur sion ride within It, limits. We do not mean to have It Understood that anything like a majority of the visitors to the Yel lowstone express 'themselves ln favor of the Introduction of rail-ways as yet. but the proportion of those who 'avow some such sentiments as those we have quoted was unpleasantly large at the height of the snasoh this year and the feeling thus expressed should not be allowed to go with out challenge,' or It may develop Into a menace to the Integrity and usefulness of this great national recreation ground. One of the highest, authorities on every matter relating to the Yellowstone Na tional park Is Captain Hiram Martin Chit tenden, U. 8. A., (the engineer officer In charge of the government work there. In commending the tare foresight of congress In reserving one spot In the national do main where original conditions may remain undisturbed, he thus summarises the argu ments for the exclusion of railroads: "The moment railroads are built through the park It loses forever that original con dition which Is one of Its greatest charms. They would undoubtedly work serious dam age to the game and to the forests, to say nothing of their effect on the natural beauty of this region. Electric lines would be less objectionable than steam railroads, but the same fundamental argument ap plies to them as Well. The people prefer not to find these things 1n this reservation; they prefer to travel behind horses even r k . . . . i. to. uiikuiiiiui ii nrn greater, ana they would rather have tbe government removel O..U .4 1 . . - v.. .. - mnuiiiiuiii oj creating a perfect sys" tern or roads than ever grant the privilege or building a railway line In the park." Since this was written the discomfort arising from the dust on the stage routes has been done away with by the adoption of an elaborate and effective system of sprinkling the principal roads, and every person familiar with the existing condi tions and having In mind the greatest possi ble usefulness of the park will Join wltn Captain Chittenden ln saying: "Keep all railways out of the Tellow stone now and forever.' PLKASASTLY POINTED. Munchausen explained his reputation. My first step," he said, "was telling them what a fine time I had on my vaca tion." New York Tribune. think I should be able to get tips from you on the market. ' Gotrox Encourage them ln that belief my dear. It won t be long before I'll be Puck UIBload tb tock I'm carrylng.- "It was only five years ago that I started In with our nrm at $5 a week," said Bragg, tronublen"W rn m ' W?ek w"hout "That's ao;.ltis .easy ..M aar hat," re- pIl?,?nNrw,tJL' but how mticltlloVou get?" Philadelphia Ledger. "Has he changed his style of living much since he Inherited this vast wealth? " "No; simply changed from aecond-hand clothes to second-hand dishes and furni ture." Brooklyn Life. Man on Commission Isn't It a shame for a man to accept $100,000 a year merely for the use of his name as president of a great corporation? Man on Fixed Salary No; that Isn't so bad-lf he'd only be satisfied with that. Chlcago Tribune. "He's a conventional sort of fellow." "Naturally." "Why so 7" "He attends all the conventions." Cleve land Plain Dealer. Departing Guest Do you permit your servants to accept little r preseats? Summer Landlord Great Soottl, Tot-, nautili nny money len, nave you 7 Cleve land Leader. - AN AITIMJ PRAYER. . S. W. Glllllan In Baltimore American. When the dead leaves quiver earthward In the twllght of the year, Comes the time of love and dreaming, when the days of days appear: Purpling distance, mellowing sunshine, trees aflame with red and gold. Air brimful of life's elixir nectar on Olympla old Was aa water In Its weakness when com pared with this, melhlnks, And I wish life's chain were endles with sweet days like this for links. Music greets my every footstep In the dead leaves rustling here When the ripe leaves quiver earthward in the twllght of the year. When the leaves come trembling earthward In the gloaming of the year. Then this life's perennial sweetness aeema a thousand times more dear; Yet the million gorgeous death soenes that emblazon every wood As the leaves In splendid shroudings quit their dying brotherhood To return to earth that gae. them In the spring so tearfully . Breathe a prayer like an Incense through the very heart of me: "When life's sap Is flowing feebly and my rest Is drawing near. May my time for trembling earthward be the gloaming of the year.". Great waves of heavy hair! Oceans of flowing tresses I XJcamjy, eieyurcvo, ATBS'B FllXt ef seaittaatlos. aiiB S AGOa CORX-Vvl aaalerta sag AfM. 1
