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4 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1005. Tim Omaha Daily Bee E. ROBEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNINO. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Pally Be (without Sunday), on year..t4"0 Xntl jr Hee and Bundav, one year no Illustrated Bee, one year t V Sunday Be, one year 1 M Saturday Be, one year 1W DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Dally Bee (without Bundav). per week... 12c Dally Bee (Including Sunday), per week. 17c Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week. fie Evening Bee (with Sunday), per week...jnc Sunday Bee, per ropy 5c Addreaa complaint of Irregularities In de livery to City Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omaha City Hall Building. Council Blu ft 10 Pearl Street. Chicago 1M0 Unity Building. New York 1FVH) Home Life In. Building. Washington Wt Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to new and ed itorial matter should he addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only 2-cent a lam pa received aa payment of mall account. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accented. TUB BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OW CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska Douglaa County, as. : C. C. Rosewater. aecretary of The Bee Publishing Company, being duly a worn, aaya that the actual number of full ana complete copies of The Dally, Morning, Kvenlng and Sunday Bee printed during the month of September, 1906. waa aa fol low: 1 80,400 Id 81,700 2 SlrSSO 17 2,10 I 2,lRO IS 30,700 4 so.ano 19 80,700 f ao.rro 20 ua,4io 80,820 21 j. 80,fOO 7 30,730 22 SO,IHK 1 81, (MX) "3 81.02O 1 81,SOO 24 80,000 10 Z,iUW 25 81, ISO 11 30,X) ; 31.030 12 80.7BO 27 304HH) 13 30,710 28 80,770 14 SO.MftO 29 80,870 15...... Sl.OOO ' SO 31.H50 Total 024,(120 Less unaold coplea 10,10:1 Net total galea 816,328 Dally average 80,844 C. C. ROSEWATER, Sec'y. Subscribed In my presence and aworn to before me thla 80tn day of September, If. (Heal) M B. HCNQATE. Notary Public. . WHEN OCT OF TOWS, Subscriber leaving- the city tem porarily should hart Th Be mailed to them. It la better than a dally letter from home. Ad dreaa will bo changed mm oftea aa requested. Register of Deeds Harry Deuel has again discovered that there are many boles in a skimmer.' Terhaps the su-goiuyia is afraid of the "big stick," and will take care to evacuate New Orleans before It arrives. I, i Now that the asphalt compnny admits it backed the Venezuela rebellion France may have to start that punitive expedi tion alone. '. "Joe" Leitpr Is doing worse than "paying for a dead horse." lie Is giv ing checks for profits he didn't realize In an old deal in. wheat. "Former" " bankers of Pennsylvania can Join those of Nebraska in testifying that it doeg not pay to Jend state funds indiscriminately to politicians. There la one thing ou . which all Omaha is .agreed,, and that is that Omaha wants and must have in the near future a modern fireproof hotel. If former President itaiusey tries to flud a position for each one he has lost since breaking with George Gould he will be kept busy for n few months. When expert bookkeepers begin to testify against each other the public may grow suspicious that mathematics is not the exact science claimed by its followers. In testifying tuct It costs no rrt.-e than $4.05 to ice a Car for three days and. that south of Chicago a witness is showing where the real profit Is found la the fruit business. The release of Deiiulsou s bondsmen over in Iowa has almost come simultan eously with the disappearance of Star Performer fcbercllffe and the disillusion of Governor Cummins. A crank bus been arrested while try ing to take the life of District Attorney Jerome of New York. The press agent of the Independent candidate should pro duce something more novel. The failure of the supreme court to render a decision on the validity of the Dodge primary election law will save the socialists the trouble of finding a candidate for register of deeds." From the manner in which certain Interests oppose the parcels posts bill one would think the world had made little progress since the weavers of England destroyed looms run by steam. Cable advices from Tokio announce that W. J. Bryan addressed an audience of about 10,000 Japanese In clean cut and well paraphrased English. The re port must be taken, figuratively speak ing, multiplied by 1 to 1. President Kooxevelt bus now made It impossible for any man to say that he favors the presidential program, but does not desire to give the Interstate Commerce commission power to fix rates subject to Judicial review. Puttlug it briefly, Mr. Uoosevelt sim ply wants to make it possible for the American business man to be successful without adopting any questionable ex pedients to get favors from railroads, or compete with those who enjoy railroad favor. ' The county is still payiug 45 cents a day for feedlug prisoners In the county Jail, while the city only pays 10 cents a day for the same bill of fare to pris oners in the city Jail. Can anybody give any good reason why this partialitj fchould bo coutlnued. THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECHES The speeches of President Roosevelt at Richmond and Raleigh, while en tirely different in subject matter, are very characteristic. In the Richmond address the president msde an eloquent appeal to loyalty and patriotism and pointed out our duty as a great people toward the rest of the world. In the Raleigh speech Mr. Roosevelt considered chiefly practical matters, making a plea for forest preservation which applies to the whole country. In this connection the president said some things quite as worthy the attention of the people of the west as of the south. But the portion of the speech that is of greatest interest is that relating to government supervision and regulation of the railroads. Not that there is any thing especially new in what was said, but that it gives renewed assurance of the president's steadfast adherence to the policy of railroad supervision by the government This is needed, Mr. Roose velt declared, "quite as much In the in terest of the big shipper and the railroad man who want to do right, as in the in terest of the small shipper and the con sumer." He said the proposed policy was not revolutionary, as he only wished the same power given in refer ence to railroads that is now exercised as a matter of course by the national Lank examiners as regards national banks. From this utterance the Country learns, in part at least, what the presi dent will say in his annual message to congress. AKOTHER OBJECT LESSOR. Before the recent convention of na tional bankers the comptroller of the cur rency made the statement that nine bank failures out of ten are due to the neglect of directors. An object lesson sustaining this view is Just furnished in the case of the Enterprise National bank of Allegheny, which on Wednesday was taken charge of by the comptroller of the currency, after having been found to be Insolvent The disclosures that have been made show that the cashier, who committed suicide, had loaned large amounts of money, of course without adequate security, to numerous persons, most of them said to be politicians more or less engaged in various enterprises. " It appears that the cashier had a prac tically free bund in the matter, that he made loans amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars without consulting any other officer of the bank In a word, ran the institution about as he pleased. The president seems to have known lit tle if anything about the condition of the bank, while the reports ninke no men tion of the directors. Undo ' 'edly when a more thorough investig.it, m has been made it will be found that the directors had neglected their duties and were ig norant of the way in which the cashier was handing out money on Insufficient security. At Louisville, Ky yesterday, the former president of the Western National bank, closed , several weeks ago, was indicted for misappropriation of funds and embezzlement. Undoubt edly another instance in which the di rectors of the bank were mere figure heads. Such instances, it may be said, are not frequent but they occur often enough to create a feeling of distrust in the public mind, and it is well to call attention to them as a possible means of remedying what so competent an author ity as the comptroller of the currency regards as an evil urgently calling for correction. LATEST CIVIL SERVICE, ORDER. The amendment to the civil service rules authorized by the president a few days ago Is liable to be misinterpreted. It is very likely to be regarded by some as a step backward, a renunciation In part of the president's well known position in regard to the civil service. The order does not fairly admit of any such construction. Its purpose is simply to enable the chief executive and the heads of departments to remove those persons in the classified service whom these officials personally know to be in efficient or incapable and whose removal would be for the betterment of the pub lic service." It should be understood that the new regulation does not abrogate, but merely modifies the existing rule in regard to removals of persons in the classified service. The power conferred upon the heads of executive departments must be exercised only in cases where they have personal knowledge of Inefficiency or In capacity, and the cause f removal must be stated in writing and filed with the Civil Service commission. It is well known that there are many persons In the executive departments of the gov ernment who by reason of age are in capable or inefficient, while there are others ,who, feeling that they are pro tected by the civil service regulations, do not faithfully perform their duties. Such persons are necessarily an injury to the public service. They retard work and their example is bad. No cor poration or business firm would keep such persons In its employment and no sound reason can be given why the gov ernment should do so. There is no reason to think that the new regulation will result in the removal of any employes of the government who do not deserve to be removed and the statement that the thousands of civil service clerks in the departments are greatly alarmed about it is probably groundless. It Is safe to say that those who have done their duty and continue to do so are Just aa secure in their posi tions as before the new regulation was promulgated. No head of a department can desire to make a general change of employes, the effect of which would be demoralizing to the service, and the public can certainly have confidence that no man occupying a cabinet position would dismlHa a suliordlnate without be ing fully satisfied that it was his duty, in the interest of the service, to do so. It can 1 very confidently asserted that i no member of the preseut cabinet would make a removal which he did not feel was fully Justified. It is a reasonable expectation that the new regulation will have the effect to Improve the discipline of the depart mental forces. With the assurance that inefficiency or incapacity will no longer receive toleration, all employes of the ex ecutive departments of the government who care to retain their positions will exert themselves to win the confidence of the chief officials and thus there will be a more faithful and efficient perform ance of duty and a greater amount of work accomplished. There is no danger of any departure from the principle of civil service reform by the present ad ministration, but that principle should not be made to protect the Inefficient or the incapable. MCST TAKE MACI1IXE JASTRt'CTOIV. The introduction of the voting ma chine at the coming election compels every voter to acquaint himself with its mechanism before election day, so that he may exercise the franchise intelli gently and avoid voting for the wrong man. Like all other mechanical de vices, the voting machine is very simple when you know how to handle it, but nobody can feel sure of handling it right until after he has tried it In view of the fact that election is less than threev weeks ahead of us, there is very little time to be lost for voters who have not already taken practical lessons in machine voting. Although voting machines have been on exhibition in Omaha and South Omaha for several months past, we are told that less than 10 per cent of the voters have yet taken the trouble to give the machine a trial or even to examine it. This may be due partly to indifference in the political campaign or to overconfldence in the ability of voters to catch ou to the trick when the time comes for action. It is to be hoped that from now on until election day every voter who has not already exercised his skill In band; ling the voting machine will lose no time in taking lessons. It goes without say ing that a blunder made in machine vot ing cannot be rectified as it could when a ballot Is spoiled. Once the vote is cast it is sure to be counted as It was cast and not as it was intended to be cast. The only way voters can con fidently venture to express their choice through the ballot box by machine is for, them to know by practical experi ment that they are capable of manipu lating the lever correctly. NOVIXQ THE CROPS. Time was when the moving of the crops involved a tremendous financial strain and a very heavy drain upon the surplus of money deposited in the vaults of banks and trust companies of New York. Immense a tounts of money will again be required to move this year's big crops and carry on the vast traffic In agricultural products, but the strain will not be upon Wall street and the New England banks, but upon the railroads in the great wheat, corn and cotton belts of America. There is abundant money In that region to move all the crops to the mar kets on the Atlantic seaboard, but there is an admitted shortage of railroad equipment to move the crops ex peditiously. In other words, the activ ity in all lines of trade and the Immense crops that must be moved from one section of the country to the other create no uneasiness as to the ability of the banks to handle the business, but there Is a well grounded apprehension that the railroads with all their vastly in creased facilities for traffic will still be seriously hampered for the next few months in hauling the surplus of the crops to their destination. This abnor mal condition is incident to the wave of prosperity that has swept the country and reversed all former experiences and even all the most sanirutne predictions. Among the suggested amendments to the charter submitted by The Bee to the late Douglas delegation in the legis lature was the following: All telephone, telegraph and electric light wires within one mile of the city hall, in cities of the metropolitan class shall be placed In subways or conduits owned and controlled by the city. The city shall have tha right to acquire all conduits heretofore constructed by remunerating the owners thereof for their actual value without any allowance for franchise and the city shall be empowered to charge and collect a roy alty for the use of said conduits from every Individual association or corpora tion that may desire to avail Itself of them. For reasons not explained, but easily guessed, the suggestion did not meet with favor; but the time will come at no distant day when Its adoption will become a public necessity. That the average bourlnm newspaper organ, like the average bourbon demo crat, never learns anything is again strikingly illustrated by the cannou ball soup editorial ladeled out to dyspeptic democrats by the Omaha Vorld-He-ald as an antidote to a pungent paragraph on the Rockefeller manifesto of the democratic candidate for university re gent. The bourbonic organist evidently imagines that he can awaken the dead with his megaphone. It is in accord with the eternal fit ness of things for the Omaha junior yel low to applaud the executive committee of the Commercial club for declaring in favor of a forty-three-year gas fran chise in the face of Its own record as a paid opponent of a bond Issue for the establishment of a municipal electric lighting plant which would have en abled Omaha to secure better and cheaper illumination. The proposed conversion of the mar ket bouse into a winter bear garden suggests the question, whether Omaha will ever control its own public mar ket, for the benefit of the public, or whether it will continue to maintain a market house for the profit of private aggregations organized to control the marketing of truck farm and dairy products at tlx1 expense of consumers. Following testimony tut the rail roads lose money on transporting live stock, packing house products and dressed meat comes testimony that they lose money on shipments of fruit and vegetables In refrigerator cars. If this testimony Is all true other forms of traffic are making up big deficits and some shippers are paying more than a "square deal" would Justify. Present Company Kicepted. Washington Post. No congressman has yet suggested tha saving of. money In the government prlnt ery by abolishing the plan of printing speeches for distribution during tha polit ical campaigns. The Official Finish. Baltimore American. The peace treaty between Japan and Rus sia was 'officially put into effect Saturday, but It was done so quietly that nobody would have suspected that anything of un usual significance was happening. Credit for t.hostly Warriors. Chicago News. For the successful conduct of the war the mikado again gives credit to the Illus trious ancestors. It would be Interesting to know how far the ancestors would have been held to blame If the war had gone tha other way. Official Pie la Good. Baltimore American. Fearing that too many cooks would spoil the broth, the Panama Canal commission has decided to run Its own hash house. It must be remembered, also, that the mem bers have had a good nibble at govern ment pie and know that it Is every whit as good as mother baked. A Strange Proceeding. Wail Street Journal. It is strange that the American Bankers' association should have given such promi nence to the subsidy question. Possibly It la believed that a big merchant marine would Increase our prominence In Interna tional banking. But the subject was Bt this time hardly one for the bankers to give Judgment upon. Insurance Doctor Disagree. Pittsburg Dispatch. Tha advocacy of federal Insurance regu lation by Senator Dryden and other Insur ance magnates rendered It liable to sus picion. But when Senator Bulkeley of Connecticut, also an Insurance president and an avowed supporter of the practice of buying votes, comes out In opposition to the proposition It Is a strong point In Its favor. Oregon'! Dubious Distinction. New Tork Sun. The Hon. Charles William Fulton, United States senator from Orec m, is the only member of that state's delegation to con gress not under conviction or Indictment for penal offenses. He will be the whole delegation when congress assembles this fall. The least that President Roosevelt can expect from' him is that Oregon's en dorsement of candidates for public office will be unanimous. RAILROADS AND SENATORS. Corporate' Influence- Menaces the " ' Public Will. Kansas City Star. In every state In the union there Is a railroad lobby1 "of1 some sort. In some states the legislatures have been corrupted by the railways antf-tollow the dictation of these lobbies. Through the control of legislatures the railroads have secured a powerful Influ ence In the United States senate, whose members are' elected by the state legisla tures. Some senators are known to have been elected by railway Interests, soma are suspected of having allied themselves with these interests and some are known to be free from such taint. This Is a deplorable state of affairs. It Is even more serious than a general state ment implies,, for the senate is so governed that a few leaders, sometimes a single member, may prevent legislation. There fore, when the senate Is no longer a rep resentative body, but a railroad agency, the country must find a new way to elect its members. Fortunately, there Is to be a sound test of loyalty to Ihe people and subservience to the railroads in the matter of the spe cial legislation urged by President Roose velt. The action of the various senators on this question will pretty clearly define to which of theso two each member be longs. Tha issue is clear, even if the rail roads, through the most systematic propa ganda ever employed for such a purpose, have tried to confuss the public mind. There should be a movement In every state in the union for the election of United States senators by the people, which is feasible through the plan of nominating conventions and elections subject to the ratification of the loK'nlKtures. But this movement will be especially Imperative In states whose senators get on the wrong side of the proposed railway legislation or have already ahown subservience to cor porations rather than loyalty to the peo ple. GIVING HIS SNAP AWAY. Sam Spencer' Expresalve Description of Present ' Railroad Conditions. Pittsburg Dispatch. When Mr. Samuel Spencer in a speech before the Newark Board of Trade charac terlted the propositions for effective regu lation of railroad - rates as "commercial lynch law" he dou' tless thought that he had coined a new and telling phrase. But If he had stopped to consider Its real ap plication to the facts in the case he might have been less free in Injecting it Into the discussion. Lynch law is the seisure of power by a mob or clique to put individuals to death without regard to the safeguards or au thority of law. Commercial lynch law, to make the parallel good, must predicate some Interest or clique to have grasped and to exercise the power to wipe out commer cial existence without regard to law or legal procedure. It Is evident that to apply this term to a process of regulation authorised by law and conducted with all the safeguards of public hearings, evidence and review by the higher courts Is Irra tional. But there is no doubt that commercial lynch law does appear In connection with this subject. The adjustment of railroad rates so that Individual firms are wiped out of business. Industries condemned to languish and communities to decay, not by the law but by the edict of the rail way rate makers, completely fulfills the definition of commercial lynch law. For an example, that case In which the western railways doubled the rates on Kansas crude oil. as soon as the Standard had Ha pipe lines In operation, may. In the ab sence of any other rational explanation, be taken as a deliberate attempt to subject to commercial death the Kansas producers who did not choose to send their oil through the pipe lines. With this In view the fact appears that the put-pose of the berated legislative proposition is to prevent tha commercial lynch law which the railroad Interest seems to defend as one of lu most cherished privileges. BITS OP WASHIJGTO 1,1 FE. Minor Scenes and Incidents Sketched oat the Spot. Marked progress Is noted In the work of constructing the new railroad terminal in Washington. The tunnel under Capitol Hill Is cut through, but will require another year to finish. It Is over 1. 000 feet long. Satisfactory progress In building tha Union station Is also reported. The main walls are well above ground. Though barely a year has passed since the work began. It Is certain the huge undertaking will be fin ished ahead of the time limit of three years, and Involve an outlay estimated at flS, 000,000. The Keep commission, which has been In vestigating departmental methods all sum mer, Is considering a novel project which may result in the repeal of the thirty-day sick leave act and the restoration by statute of the working day which began at o'clock In the morning and closed at 4 o'clock In the afternoon. The commission has de voted a great deal of time to the study of the sick leave law, with the result that It has come to the conoluslon that at least T5 per cent of the personnel of the govern ment's departmental working force con trives to be sick on an average of about thirty days to the year. The fact that the invalids furnish prop erly attested doctors' certificates as Incon trovertible proof of their incapacity to labor does not, in the Judgment of the commis sion, adequately explain why so largo a proportion of government employes should be sick each year. All of the members of the commission have had experiences In other lines of Industry and their observa tion taught them that sickness was by no means so universal among the employes of private enterprises as among government employes. They have come to the conclu sion that the slek leave law Is simply an opportunity for Imposture on a gigantic scale and they are in favor of Its repeal. They believe that the employes of the de partments will be very glad to surrender the privilege guaranteed by this law for a restoration of their old working day, which ended at 4 o'clock, and they will make a recommendation to that effect in their re port to the president. There is another law which grants each government employe thirty days' leave of absence or a vacation of one month. That, in the opinion of the commission, is ample for everybody concerned. The sick leave statute enables all those who desire to do so to extend their vacations an additional thirty days by merely furnishing the de partment with a certificate of a "sundown" doctor or even a regular medical practi tioner to the effect that they are ill and unable to work. "Sundown" doctors are Institutions pe culiar to Washington. They are graduates of medical schools who cling to their gov ernment jobs after securing certificates and attempt to eke out additions to their incomes by practicing upon those who can be purauaded to accept their ministration. Their principal business Is the furnishing of certificates to fellow employes who don't want to work. A form of suburban business exists here In Washington, the like of which can probably not be found anywhere else in the United States. Ordinarily, the dally movement of trafflo to the great city Is from the smaller cities and towns sur rounding it, but Baltimore has a popula tion approximately double that of Wash ington, and still it sends over to Washing ton a large contingent dally. This includes department clerks, employes at the navy yard gunshop, and a certain number of persons in the business life of the city. T'i'j Department of Justice has an attor ney wfm has been making the Journey daily between Baltimore and this city for twenty-two years. - He has this year de cided to move his household effects to Washington, to be a little nearer his desks. Most of these people also have to make a Journey on foot or by street car to the railroad terminals in Baltimore, which are naturally In the heart of the business rather than of the residential district. Tho explanation of this movement, re versing the ordinary laws of suburban traffic, lies In the difference In standards of cost of the two cities. Baltimore Is an inexpensive place to live in. It Is the great commercial port of the South Atlan tic, with steamers running everywhere, so that articles coming by water are unloaded at low prices on the Baltimore wharfs. Maryland Is an Important agricultural state, sending to Its metropolis a good supply of the products of farm and gar den. The standard of wages and salaries remains relatively low. Rents, in spite of the larger population, are much lower than here. Two-story buildings cover enormous areas, whereas the house of that size is going out of use here. Investors get more out of the land by building to a greater height upon it. Two of the foremost cittiens of Montana, both democrats, ex-Governor Samuel T. Houser and the present Incumbent of the gubernatorial office, Hon. Joseph K. Toole, were In Washington together this week. "Tou see, I never was quite as exalted an executive as my friend here," said Gov ernor Houser to a Washington Post man, "for I was only governor by appointment of Mr. Cleveland in the days when Mon tana was a territory, and I only held the office for about eighteen months. Office holding was never my long suit. There was a law, too, a federal statute, which re quired the governor of a territory to get permission from Washington If he wished to go outside the limits of the territory, and this law, without Intention on my part, I was continually violating. I hadn't been used to asking people whether I could go anywhere, and It didn't occur to ma that I needed leave. Often In coming east my private secretary would think to re mind me about the time we reached Chi cago that we'd left home without asking the Washington authorities, and quite as often neither of us would think about it. "Finally, when I walked In on Hon. L. Q. C. Lamar one day, that good and great man In a good-natured way told me, In his capacity aa secretary of the interior, that it waa his duty to notify me that I'd been away from my office about two-thirds of the time since my appointment. Thla was true, and so I then and there ten dered my resignation, but Mr. Lamar laughingly declined to accept It In such a hasty manner and asked me to hold on a little while longer till somebody ese could be found to take the place." "When I lived In Washington aa a dele gate In congress some twenty years ago," said Governor Toole, "I lodged on the sits of this fine establishment, but it was the old Wlllard then, and was the headquarters of many of the prominent men of that period. "One of the old Willard's greatest fea tures was the superb and multitudinous army of rats which made It their home. I always thought that if the Pied Piper of Hamelln could come back to earth It would have filled his soul with ecstacy to have tried his hand on that collection of rodents. I hadn't been there long until one day I found a hole as big as a biscuit In on of a brand-new pair of custom-made oxfords. I took the shoes to the affable Charlie leavens, chief clerk of the place, and called on him to behold the ruin of my footgear. " 'It's those d rats." said Leavens, but leave the shoe and I'll have It fixed so you'd never know anything ever was the matter. I did as requested, and the next day my shoe came back very cleverly re pair) d. Thinking to put on the pair, I hunted up Its mate, when, to my uuquall- MARCUS ADVISES THE USE OP DOAN'S Marcus R. Mayer, the man who has given American theatergoers some of their greatest treats, who brought to the United States and managed the American tours of BIsnor Salvlnl, Mme. Pattl, Olga Nethersole, Eleanora Duse, Mary Anderson, M. 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Fostcr-Mllburn Co., Jiuffalo, N. Y., Prop's. fled disgust, 1 found that it, too, had been as badly gnawed in the meanwhile as its fellow had previously been. Another trip to Leavens followed, but this time I took both shoes, and told him to put the re paired one in the safe while the other was receiving the attention of the cobbler." PERSONAL, NOTES. Hall of Fame jokes are being sprung abroad. The London Spectator, for in stance, suggests that the place be renamed the Hall of Worthies. Frank Rockefeller, brother of John D. Rockefeller, has a hobby of training wild animals at his home, Wlckliffe-on-the-Lake, near Cleveland, Ohio. Russell Harding, who has been selected for .vice president, of the enlarged Erie railroad system, began his railroad career as an office boy in the Cotton Belt route. The, fact that a New Tork woman is going about giving tlO to any gentleman sur rendering his car seat to her will do much to fortify gentlemen in resisting their natural Impulse to be polite. George Williams, England's young musi cal prodigy, Is coming to thet United States. He' is 14 years old and has already com posed an oratorio that has won much praise from critical connoisseurs. President Eliot of Harvard lives a life of the greatest possible simplicity. After seventy years of life, more than half passed as head of the university, he declares that one of the most desirable satisfactions of his life comes from having had nothing to do with the attainment of wealth. Max Darewskl, a 10-year-old boy of Polish . parentage, is the musical wonder of Lon don, where he has been conducting a Crystal Palace orchestra of 6,000 players. When little more than a baby he won an open scholarship in the London Academy of Music and at the age of 7 had composed a really good march. Eli Hiokl, the first secretary of the Japan ese legation at Washington, will address the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce cn October 24, which will be the first expres sion from official Japanese circles alnce the peace treaty was signed and it is expected that it will be of great significance as to the policy to be adopted by the mikado's empire toward the rest of the world, par ticularly the United States. In the desert of southern Arizona, with an Indian, two centipedes and a glla mon- , ster as his companions, Prof. W. J. McGoo ' of Farley, la., suffering from lost health, slept for four months without bed or covers upon the hot sands of the desert and re ' gained all his former vigor. McGee has Just returned home, a veritable athlete, In place of the weakened and emaciated man who struggled out of a severe attack of typhoid fever with only enough strength to drag himself west. Want to try an experiment? Then take any one of the hundreds of new medicines on the market. 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