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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE; SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 100(5. The Omaha Daily Dee. ,E. R08EWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED KVERT MORNING. TERMS Or SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Bee (without Sunday., ;nn year. .1410 llljr Hm and Sunday, one year 6 00 Illustrated Bee, one year f.V) Sunday Bee, one yrar IM Saturday Bee, one year 1.60 DELIVERED BT CARRIER. Daily Bee (Including Sundav), per weeR..17e Dally Boa 4 without Sunday I. per week..l2e Kvenlng Bee. (without Sunday), per week o Evening Bee (with Sunday), per wnck..l')C Mundsy Bee. per copy So Address complaints of Irregularities In de livery to CMy Circulation Department. OFFICES. Omaha The Bee Building. South Omahil City Hall Building. ' Council Bluffa Ifl Pearl Street. hieago-rlfrr') t'nlty building. New York 15C Home Life Inc. Building. . Washington tot Fourteenth Street. , - CORRESPONDENCE. . ' Communications relating to news and ed Itorlal matter should he addreased: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order pavahle to The Bee Publishing Company. Only J -cent stomps received as payment of mail accounts. Personal checks, excrt on Omaha or eastern exchanges, not accepted, . THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. -(tate of Nebraska, Dougiaa County, ss.i I O. C. Hose water, secretary of The Bee ' Publishing company, being duly sworn, ways thai the actual number; oi full and enmplete copies of The Daily, Morning, Kvenlng and Bunday Bee printed during tho mcmh of January, ID", was ss follows: I oo,fiftO 17 8t,.1l 2 4. 870 18 S1.T70 t IHI.THO 19 81,450 I ftl.TTO S2.40 t it I. Ml tO 21 BM1M1 (i 82,tlCH 2J 81,4M 7 80,130 21 l,Mlt 81,TMX U 81,470 31.0OO 25 U.oT i aa.twio a si.410 II 31, OHO 87............ 8i,8at is ai,io 28 ao,o.so is , 82,440 29 at.aso 14 m.Mi SO 81.340 15 31,870 31 81,55t II 81,770 Total 1,003,4 Lees ui.sold copies 11,4)84 Net total sales B3.4.VI Dally average aa,oi4 C. C. ROSEWATLR. Secretary. Subscribed !n my presence and sworn to before me this 31st day of January. ' tfeeal) M. a. liuNiiA'iK Notary Public WHEN .OCT OF. TOWS. Sabsorlbers leaving the city tem porarily should hove The Bee mailed to then. Address will be ebauged as oftea aa requested. Tlie now Ohio llou Is 2-cent passenger lores for everybody and no riead-hentls. Americans should smiie at Algeelras next work, a the subject for dlscussiou will be the tariff. Xcvw thnt tlie in'oaeoutiou In the Smoot cose Ins rested It is to be hoped the pub lic will also get a rest. The purged counclluieu will now pile iu and file in for a re-election on the strength of their victory. Sow that the five Omulia oounellmen uro purged of contempt, they will cheer fully present themselves n't the bar. Democratic r'lusurgents" at Washing : ton are Droving more noisv. if not more . , ,. - . effective, .Ahan the republican "Insur gents." Plague has broken out in the Russian army. It is Just possible disease may do what revolution has failed to ac complish. Secretary Taft's desire to have troops near China is probably caused by the hope that their presence will render , their use unnecessary. Judging from the proceedings of the lost session of the Water board, that body la earning its pay chiefly by tell lttK tales out of school. t Sovtb Omaha is to have a special election to vote sewer bonds next week, although the regular election is scarcely six weeks off. South Omaha must have uiouey to burn. . Now that Nebraska 'has a reciprocal Insurance tax, companies organized In this state mny be permitted to expand or those from other states will be In clined to seek greener fields. Considering the ease wth wh'ch mid shipmen have been thrown out of the Naval academy by American methods. one is inclined to agree with Admiral . Ssuds that tin 1itsu ia not tiMxlmt - If the statement that anthracite min ers are working less than eight hours a day be true, the threatened strike may'! tuean that the men simply prefer to work longer and get pay for full time. The government is perfecting a plan to tow coal burges from St Louis to Minneapolis, where the fuel will t uxed on government work. If the plan proves successful It may help to solve the prob lem of transportation charges in the west Tom Worrall was not worralllng very n.ucu over the outcome of his suit lu ths supreme court to disperse the Grain trust. He had unloaded most of his . books months ago and made a recoup for himself without taking the risk of the last guess. i . i ; Ohio now bus a Matute providing for a maximum charge of 2 cents a mile for passenger ffl" la that state. When the railroads shall have failed to prove the law to be confiscatory other states will pass similar legislation, but it is well to wait until the litigation Is ended and save turt costs. The decision of the supreme court relative to the lawful emoluments of the clerk, treasurer aud sheriff of Douglas county settle the disputed question over their salaries, but It does not legal ise the county jail feeding graft by " which from (7.000 to f lO.Ooi) a year are tilched from the taxpayers and put Into the pocket of the sheriff In addition to hi lawful - TO MOBILIZE TBt JIUT. Congress Is to be asked to make a liberal appropriation for the purpose of having the entire regular army go into camp during the coming summer and fall months. The statement is that the president and secretary of war want at least $1,000,0)0 for this mobilisation and they ayk as much more to enable them to pay the expenses of having the National guardsmen of the various states go Into camp with the regu lars. President Roosevelt favors train ing the army to act effectively In a mass. He said in bis last annual mes sage that provision should be made by sufficient appropriations for maneuvers of a practical kind, "so that the troops mny learn how to take care of them selves under actual service conditions; every march, for Instance, being made with the soldier loaded exactly he would be lu an active campaign. The generals and colonels would thereby have opportunity for handling regi ments, brigades and divisions, and the commissary and medical department would be tested In the Held." He urged thnt provision should be made for the exercise at least of a brigade and by preference of a division In marching and embarking at some point on our coast and disembarking at some other point and continuing Its march. Unquestionably this would prove beneficial to the army and Its recom mendation by the president was very likely due to suggestion from the gen eral staff. It is believed that the sum mer maneuvers that have been held were productive of some good, but that greater benefit would come from camps. It is doubtful, however, if the present congress will be found disposed to authorize the expenditure necessary to carry out the plan. With a demand for economy In appropriations wherever practicable It Is scarcely likely that congress will be willing to have a, couple of millions of dollars taken out of the ! treasury for military camps and inn-j neuvers. It will be generally felt that that sort of thing can very well wait until the national treasury has a sur plus instead of a deficit. GREATER PITTSBURG. For years the question of annexing the city of Allegheny to Pittsburg hns been agitated and the advocates of the proposition have at last succeeded in sedurlnjr the needed legislation. A few dny 'ago the legislature of Pennsylvania passed and the governor signed a bill to effect the union or consolidation of the two cities. The Pittsburg Dispatch says that when the proceedings au thorized by the act are completed, which will be at an early time, Pittsburg will at one stride advance from eleventh to sixth place among the cities of the United States, with an estimated population of 625,000; will become fourth in property valuntlon, fifth In national bank deposits, sixth In bank clearings, and continue an unapproachable first, as now, iu tonnage and the value of Its manufac tures. There can be no doubt that the con solidation will result to the material advantage of the people of both cities. As the Dispatch remnrks. experience hus shown thnt greater municipalities can provide more efficient municipal ad ministration for less proportionate cost. Allegheny will dlsnppear from the map and this may hurt the civic pride of some of its people, but as a port of Greater Pittsburg there should and doubtless will be benefits and advan tages to Its people which otherwise they could not have secured. PHEPABiyO i'OK AS EMKRQEXCY. Germany Is preparing to meet a pos sible tariff war, as shown by the largo iiitT(ase in the imports of breadstuffs lust mouth. According to the statistics the amount of wheat, corn and rye Im ported at Hamburg In January Mas more than double that for the corre sponding month of last year. The im portation of provisions bag also greatly increased, a very considerable part of this 1xlug from the United States. This uuumnl buying by German merchants is evidence of their conviction that no liew arrangement between Germany and this country is probable pending the taking effect of the tariff of the former at the beginning of next month, or less lhau three weeks hence, Ptill reports come from Wahln-on to the effect that no tariff war will actua ally be opened between the two coun tries. It is stated that those who are closest In touch With the situation be lieve that it may yet be possible to avert an actual conflict The negotiations are still open and no final reply has been nmde by the secretary of state to the rcprew ntations made to the department by the German ambassador. It Is fur ther xlnted that there Is n growing spirit of conciliation among members of the house of representatives. Some of them are t-.ild to believe that If the matter can be held open for some months it will be liCfcstHe to secure action designed to reach a satisfactory agreement. In r gur.1 to this It is to be remarked that ftou; Iho'senate rather than the house Is obstruction to an arrangement to be looked tor. It Is not to be doubted that the efforts of the admlulstrstto 1 to efe-'t an airi-M'tncnt which would avert a tariff war has many supporters in the bouse, especially among the representatives of the interests which will be chiefly af fected by the German tariff, but so far as appears there is liitu sentiment In the senate favorable to making any coij.f ssi.'us to 'Germany. One report from Washington says: "It is known that the Germans have a very high re gard for the ublllty of Secretary Root and It seems at least unlikely that If he should signify a willingness to under take the task of presenting matters to (he senate it would be possible to con clude a satisfactory modus Vivendi that would csrry things along until rongrcas could conxider the matter carefully and legislate upon It" The only thing In the situation that at present apiears certain Is thst the German tariff will go into effect at the defilgnatffd time. POLITICAL CAIU ESTERS TO TBE RtAH. Omaha has reached the stage In Its growth when its building inspection de partment must shoulder responsibilities such as never rested upon It before. The outlook for building Improvements for the next two or three years promises to keep the building Inspector and his assistants busy from morning till night, weeii in and week out. The character of the structures that are now being erected Is likewise so far In advance, of those which were for merly put up that they call for a differ ent order of ability in passing on plans and specifications and inspecting the work as it progresses. - A caspenter or a bricklayer who had merely worked at his trade may perhaps have made .a good enough building inspector for Omaha ten or fifteen years ago, but the Greater Omaha of today needs a build ing Inspector who has had experience in construction supervision and who cn hold an intellgent check upon' architects and contractors dlsposedto evade the building regulations. This Is, tbe Idea' held in view In the framing of the new charter, which pre scribes tbe qualifications for the office of building inspector, requiring nlni to be "an architect of. not less than seven years' practice In designing and super intending the construction of buildings, or an experienced house builder and mechanic of ten years' practice as a building contractor or superintendent of building construction." ' These remarks are prompted by the announced aspirations of a lot of po litical mechanics to be building In spector. No man who cannot perform the duties of the position creditably and come up to the spirit as well as the let ter of the legal qualifications has any business to file for nomination to this office. It was a mistake to make the , place of building Inspector elective, but, j accepting conditions as they are, the j people will be in no humor to accept an j Incompetent for such responsibilities. The Bee's advice is for the political carpenters to withdraw without waiting to be turned down. The grand stand play of the World- TT ...... 1 .1 . . . H,.t.lAi.n..4lMAH, that will compel the Nebraska Tele- j phone company to open up Its Omaha ' exchange to all the outside independent telephones In the state forces the tples tion, What Is it up to? The World Herald knows as well as anyone that the Nebraska Telephone company has for nearly two years been making reciprocal contracts with in lependent systems that are serving non-competitive territory, although refusing to con nect up with Independent exchanges In towns where It has Its own system. 'Is the World-Herald figuring . suddenly discovering this situation and then loudly claiming a great victory? Or Is it simply laying the foundation by mak lug a demand thnt can not bo fully met. to Jump In for a franchise for a second telephone in Omaha as the only alterna te? Which hand Is It playing? 1 The newspaper Oracle of Candidate Benson declares that his election would give us a man in the mayor's chair just like Commissioner Ure on the county board. If nothing better can be said for Penson than this. It had better be left unsaid. The people of Omaha do not want a repetition of the fiasco per pet:ntcd by Ure In making such profuse nnte-elfctlon promises and then bob bing up at the first opportunity as tbe champion of the odious jail feeding graft. At this distance It is difficult to dis cover just what bearing the fact that some Mormon leuders still live in polyg amy has upon the qualifications of Sena tor Sbioot But since the senator de sires to present more than 100 witnesses on this point it cannot be immaterial, unless his Utah friends are pursuing this method of settling ugly rumors. Colonel "Jim" Dahlman has gained a lap over the Hon. "Ed" Smith on the democratic mayoralty race track. "Jim" declares he is willing to run on any old platform the campaign committee may fix up for him after he shall have been nominated, while "Ed" wants to dictate hW own platform. The issue is Just likely to become "No dictation." Now that the railroad tax Injunctions have been dissolved, railroads had bet ter accept the lnevltablefand pay their taxes instead of irritating other tax payers and exasperating the people by refusing to bear their just share of the brrdens of government in the most pros perous times in tlie history of American railroading. WsIUr at the Bat. Philadelphia Ledger. Ex-Engineer Wallace had to wait a while for his Innings, but he did terrific wora at the bat when his chance came. s Logla of Statesmanship. Chicago News. One congressman wants a law taxing the bachelors of tbe country an amount sufficient to support all the spinsters. There Is a logical mind for you. Sympathies Aroascd. Minneapolis Journal. There is a dilute on in Nebraska be tween the railroads and one Norrls Brown over a United States senatorshlp. Our sympathies are with Brown, but we fear the worst. Chivago Journal. . There Is a mythical story of Maria Antoinette in the flush of her prosperity, that, being Informed that the people had no bread to eat, she replied: "Well, then let them eat cake." Something of the same spirit of cynical arrogance appears in the senate's attitude toward the pure food bill. One can imagine some pursy senator, reeking with terrapin and canvas back, replying to statements that the peo ple's food is being poisoned, with some auoh remark as Marie Antoinettes. The French had no means of resenting It but revolution. But the American people. In spite of the meekness with which they hove submitted for some time to the sen ate's domineering course, are the masters of the senate, and they will exercise the mastery If exasperated much further. I'reparedaeae for m Strike. Philadelphia Record. Coal operators hare stored 7.000.VUO tons of coal and are building Stockades around the collieries. The miners have U.000.000 In their strong box and they expect to double that amount by April 1. About I.OOO.OuO persons are dependent upon an thracite mining, for tbelr dally bread, and If a strike shall be declared some of the:n will be very hungry before it is called off or the operators succumb. Carry the Hews tm Spala. Louisville Courier-Journal. There will be a good deal said in the American newspapers In deprecation of the bull fight at Algeelras. Unfortunately Just at this time President Eliot of Harvard university has gone Into print with the ob servation that "as a spectacle, for the persons who know what the game really Is, foot ball Is more brutalislng than prize fighting, cock fighting or bull fighting." The Spanlarda will read this, no doubt, with great interest. Election Manners la England. Harper's Weekly. It America Is a paradise, Kngland is the purgatory, of the political speaker. He is very far from being allowed In England to have things all his own way. It Is an unwritten law of the country that be Is liable to contradiction. Any man In the audience may get up and dispute any state ment be pleases, and the orator is not al lowed to disregard the Interruption, but has to stop and argue the matter out with his adversary The heckler has a recog nised standing, and all Englishmen are hecklers, and especially all English work ing men. In a company of sis you have only to show an American that five are against him to convince him that he Is wrong. That is just when an English worklngman would . become finally con vinced that he was the only sane person In the room. Vain Search for Barled Treasure. Portland Oregonian. Burled treasure seems to have an irre sistible fascination for mankind, and from the days of Jason In his Quest for the golden fleece on down past Captain Kliid and the pirates of the Spanish main it has always been easy to find men who would spend time and money -In an effort to un earth some fabled treasure that was re ported burled In an indefinite locality. There died in New Terk, penniless and alone. In a cheap lodging house, Sunday, a man who had spent $20,000 In cruises to the South seas In search of burled treasure. From this coast the Cocos island treasure has lured Innumerable expeditions to that diminutive Island In the Pacific, but the treasure. If It ever existed, Is still burled, and If no better success attends the efforts of those now engaged In finding It or those who are to succeed them, It will continue as mythical as the golden fleece. AXTI-GRAFT DECISION. "Coarteslea" Extended to Jnrors Pro nounced "Error." Philadelphia Press. Graft 1 having a hard time Just now. it has been exposed and-found out and peuple are beginning to appraise it at its true worth. There was a disposition at one time to distinguish grades in Kraft and to speak of "honest graft." But that hns pasred by and all graft is condemned. Oraft Is something obtained for nothing or something obtained above what has been earned or paid for. It Is not an honest grft, but given or obtained furtively, and when analysed closely is found to be either a theft or a bribe. One kind of graft has got Into court and has been specifically and vigorously Is not severely condemned. In a Michigan case just reported the appellate'court held with great gravity that, "In proceedings by a railroad company to condemn land for a rlprht-of-wdf. It was error for the counsel, witnesses and Jurors to mingle freely to gether, dining together, and for meals, cigars and drinks to be furnished by the railroad's representatives." It Is a great thing to have this sterling principle of law and ethics Judicially estab lished. A litigant must not dine and wine or otherwise shower favors on Jurymen. It Is quite as bad as for a' railroad company which desires to secure or prevent lerls'a tlon or has cases pending In court to supply the Wlslntors and Judges with free passes over its lines. PBOTECTIXO EM.ISTED MEX. President's HooeTelt's Indorsement of neserved ' (estenee, New York Sun. President Roosevelt's lndoriement of the court-martial sentence reducing Lieutenant Boy I. Taylor twelve files because of his treatment of an enlisted man Indicates how thoroughly the administration Is de termined to enforce respect for the na tional uniform. The president in his letter to Secretary Taft of the War denartment went out of his way to make this declara tion: "To strive to discriminate against him (the enlisted man) In any way Is literally an Infamy, for it Is In reality one of the most serious offenses which can be com mitted against the stability and greatness of our nation. If a hotel keeper or the owner of a theater or any other public re sorts attempts such discrimination, every thing possible should be done by all gopd cltlsens to mske the man attempting It feel the full weight of a Just popular re sentment, and, If possible, legaV proceed ings whould be taken agalnRt him." This is In line with the bill recently In troduced In congress at k Secretary Bona parte's request, which would make dis crimination against an enlleted man of the navy a misdemeanor punishable by fine and imprisonment. How general this discrimin ation is may be judged by the recent elec tion of a theatrical manager to honorary membership lu an army and navy organisa tion because his practice had always been to treat soldiers and sailors In uniform as he treated other. cltlsens. He Is an excep tion to the rule in his calling. It is improbable that the great majority of American cltlsens are aware of the dis crimination aimed at enlisted men in the army and navy by hotel keepers, theater managers and the proprietors of other pub lic places of amusement. Among the mass of people there Is no prejudice against the army and navy uniforms, and for the man Inside them there is much admiration and respect. This is not due alone to the high honor in which the fighting men are justly held. It is widely recognised that te en listed men ef. both services are In the main orderly, decent, respectable, of good habits, accustomed to behave themselves and giving no cause for offense to those with whom they come In contact. Were the army and navy recruits unwilling con scripts, or of a class In any way Inferior to the bulk of the country's cittsenship, there might be some reason for discrimin ating against them. Such is not the case, and it would b Interesting to learn the reasons that Impel the manager of a thea ter or the proprietor of a hotel, after mak ing a careful survey of his patrons, to ex clude from their society the clean cut, well mannered men who guard the nation's honor on sea and deld. - OTIIKR LAD9 THA OlftS. The new British battleship Dreadnought which King Edward would have launched the other day but for the sudden death of the king of Denmark Is confessedly the result of lessons taught by the Kusso-Japa-nese war and Is the most destructive naval engine of war yet devised by human In genuity. The latest typo of British battle ships carry four twelve-Inch guns ($50 pound shell). Tho Dreadnought will have ten of these weapons of a new type, with a mussle energy of VSMi, as compared with the of the guns of such recent bat tleships as the Majesties, an Increase of power In each weapon of 60 per cent. In a fight the Dreadnought will be able to dis charge every minute ten projectiles; weigh ing 8.500 pounds, with sufficient velocity to send them nearly twenty-five miles, or to penetrate sixteen Inches of the hardest armor at a range of two miles. Unlike other battleships, it will carry no weapon smaller than the great twelve-Inch pieces, except eighteen three-Inch quick-firers for repelling attacks by torpedo craft. It will mount neither S.J-lnch, 7.6-Inch nor -lneh: It will be the biggest ship afloat and It will have only the biggest and most powerful guns. The admiralty has decided that the war In the far east proved the comparative useleenness of the gun of me dium size at modern battle ranges. The Dreadnought will be Impelled by turbines and Is expected te have speed enough to overtake any ship of Its class afloat. One of the first plans which was laid be fore the czar after the conclusion of the war was the gigantic project of building a tunnel through the Caucasus under the present military Georgian road running from Vladlkavkas to Tlflls. This will be the biggest thing of Its kind ever at tempted, and the costliest. The total length of the tunnel, which will be In two divisions, will be thirty-two miles one di vision of fourteen, the other of eighteen miles. The mountain to be tunnelled will be the famous "Cross" mountain and the tunnel will be entered Just within sight of the peak of Kilek. the mountain to which Prometheus was chained. The tunnel. It Is computed, will take shout eighteen to twenty years to bore and the total cost will not fall far short of & ono.roo. The stratglc advantages of the line will be enormous. The network of TCuropean Rus sian railways will he connected with the Caucasian system and with the 1ln run ning to the Persian frontier. With this tunnel rinflt !t will be possible to move troops from Pt. Petersburg to the Persian frontier In about severi days. Owing to the present widespread agita tion against the existing system of election to the' representative chambers In Prussia and othef German states, a speech which has Just been delivered In the upper cham ber of the Bavarian Diet by Prince Lud wlg, the heir presumptive to the Bavarian crown, has caused a good deal of comment. Prince ludwlg skid that the country was to be congratulated upon the existence of a system of election to the German Reich stag which satisfied the majority of the population. To understand this -it was only necessary to look at other countries with fancy systems of election, which were In conflict with the popular sense of Justice. He was Inclined to doubt whether such systems would last much longer, and thought It quite possible that they would be succeeded by more comprehensive sys tems of popular election. In his opinion elections as a rule could only give a faith ful reflection of the views of the whole pop ulation when there was an equal, universal and direct suffrage with a secret ballot. A country could never settle down, he said, without a suffrage of that charactera sen timent that Is not likely to be hailed with any great amount of official enthusiasm in Berlin. For the last ten years Fngland lias spent on drink from ISTS.OOO.OOO to $060,000,000 a J year. Its average annual expenditure on ! drink amounts, therefore, to a sum that Is I more than the entire annual revenue, that 1 Is equal to all the rents of all the houses and farms In the kingdom, and that Is only a little less that the cost of the South Af rican war. Nearly flve-elghths of this goes I In beer, about a third in spirits and one I thirteenth In wine. The expenditure per I head, on the basis of the whole population, works out at a little over $21 per annum; but It Is reckoned that there are In the United Kingdom nearly H.OOO.CO abstainers and about M.tPOO.OfO children under the age of IS. Deducting these the number of ac tual consumers is estimated at 24,000,(lOO, whose annual expenditure per head thus comes to over f35. It is also calculated thst the Kngllsh working class family spends almost one-sixth of Its Income on liquor. Australia has regarded with coldness all propositions to help develop the Island continent with the aid of assisted emi grants. She turned down Booth, the work ir.gmen flatly objecting to what they as serted was a transplantation of paupers. Canada appears to le less particular, and will doubtless welcome the 200 families of unemployed Lord Rothschild proposes to' ship to them at his, own cvpense. The Dominion offers abundant opportunities for capable men to get along, but unfortu nately for the unemployed likely to be sent to Canada they are of a kind for which their previous training has unfitted them. Men familiar with agricultural pursuits can get along prosperously in Canada, but those accustomed alt their lives to factory work or the lees toilsome domestic service cannot always be depended upon to make a good showing even when they emigrate on their own account, and the chances are still more against them when they go there aa assisted emigrants. There are 1,U0 cities in India numbering from 5,000 to 10,000 Inhabitants, and nearly 3,000 cities numbering from 8,000 to 6,000 In habitants. According to the census of 1S91. the latest within our reach, the popu lation of the country Included 67,403,701 males of over 15 years of age. If only 3 per Cent of those are able to bear arms India has a native fighting force of over l.OuO.000 men. India ceunts 80,000,000 Mo hammedans, and of the 35,000,000 Moham medans In the Turkish empire 7,00,000 are under British rule In Egypt. Consequently Great Britain rules over 87,000,000 Moham medans nearly four times as many as ara ruled over by the sultan of Turkey. That Is why Great Britain is not at all likely ever to war against Turkey. If she did so the sultan of Turkey, who Is the titular head of the Mohammeilau church, could unfurl the greeu standard of the prophet, which act would call every Mohammedan male to Its defense against everybody else in the world. The partition of Bengal has brought together the Hindus and Moham medans of its population. It la a wvll known fact, loo, that Mohammedanism Is making more converts among the Hindus than is Christianity. The British empire is the greatest Mohammedan power In the world. As the essential of that religion is "ail for each and each for all," au matter where Its members are located, it ie easy to see that Great Britain's rule over India depends for Its success on her treatment of Mohammwdans everywhere. In the province of Bengal, for Instance, out of a population of gS.&O.fliO, there ara lt.eo0.000 Mohammedans against Is. 000.000 Hindus. Both these classes look with un friendly eyes on Buddhistic )apao. P4U.ITICAI. DRIFT. After a diligent search the police of Philadelphia have been unable to And the tesMvnces of lO.OCO phantom voters In thut city. Joseph M. Deuel, the smirched Judge of a New Tork City court, refuses to resign under Are. The example of Judge Hooker Is catching. Pernicious partisans are striving to ban ish the delicious reveries of Congressman Nicholas Longworth by boosting him for governor of Ohio. There was a great scattering of gov ernors from Chicago when Tom Lawson struck town last week. Governors seem to have troubles enough without borrowing trouble. Ban Francisco, under the regime of Mayor Schmlts, is "wide open" for sure. The lid has been thrown Into the bay. Slot ma chines are everywhere and 1,200 gambling houses are said to be in full blast. Senator Carmack has gone to Tennessee to look after his campaign for re-election. His principal opponent Is ex-Governor "Bob" Taylor. At a discussion in one of the small villages In the state an orator announced: "I am for Carmack because he Is a temperance man." "Huh!" shouted an orator on an opposite stump, "I am for Bob Taylor. He's a temperance man, all right. He done took the cure." The reform legislature of Ohio Is driving the axe to the roots. The lower house, 107 to 1, put through a bill fixing paien ger rates on railroads at ! cents a mlie, adopted resolutions for election of senators by direct vote of the people, and Is seri ously considering a pleasure Imposing a tax on bachelors for the support of old maids. Looking at Ohio from a safe dis tance gives the Impression that the country is safe. Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston Is beginning to And the strenuous life which ho has I been living since his Inauguration too much for him and yesterday he announced thnt In the future he will not accept Invitations to evening affairs except those of an espe cially Important nature. During the past few weeks he has attended on an average four or Ave dances and banquets a night and this, added to the Immense amount of work he has been putting Into his offi cial duties, has begun to tell on his con stitution. In the future the ins y or will only make engagements for banquets of a trade or commercial nature. si srAinid in if nn,,n MLUtblnAd MO II LUUrvo tbo Morocco Conference Is in Session. Algeelras Is an exquisite city a little corner of Spain rarely visited by tourists and never frequented by Cook's caravans trie Spain of the olden times, tne Spain of the ballads and legends of Victor Hugo and Theophilo Gautler a city all white and blue, with Its quaint, low-built houses, its wrought Iron balconies, and lis laurels and rose bushes a-blossoming before Its green-shaded windows. The streets are still and mournful, and the grass peeps up from between the cobblestones of the pavement. All is as slient as in a sun baked city of the orient. I come and go In this strange solitude. Through the half closed doors I get a glimpse ot delicious patios, inner courts adorned with foun tains and axulejos, and with broad-leaved banana trees, laurel, roses and ' orange trees. A fragrance of flowers and ripe fruit hangs over all this drowsy town. Now and then a white hand lifts a green window shade and through the grating I sec the face of a beautiful woman. The young girls of Algeelras are the hand somest in Spain. Often of mixed Spanish and English blood, their mothers being dark-skinned Andaluslans and their fathers blonde officers of Gibraltar, they add Andaluslon grace to British charm Carmen plus Ophelia. Pensive faces, black locks and blue eyes appear among the flowers in the windows and look out Into the silent street. It la a perfect vision de theater, and I look sharp to see if it Isn't merely a lovely stage set for some comedy of Lope's or Calderon'a. A -bell rings out. , And thus called ab ruptly back to realities, I see the church in its little open square surrounded by trees and adorned with stone benches, where aged men sit smoking In silence. What Is going on 7 The women are at prayer. They wear mourning. They groan aa they pray, and their tears rain down upon their rosaries. Why are they weeping? Because they are widows and bereaved mothers, whose husbands and sons came no more back to them dead in Cuba, that island so far, so very far away! Others, more fortunate, returned only yesterday re patriated soldiers of Spain. And so upon this charming stage with Its picturesque setting there is war! In the highest of high spirits, those sol dier boys Invade the wine rooms of Alge elras and drink deep of the pale golden Amontillado. Their caps and guns are the sole remnants of their equipment; Many have thrust their bare feet Into their alpar gates. They are laughing and singing. They walk with exquisite young girls tholr sweethearts or novlas In the yellow, sun-scorched countryside about Algeelras, through Aelds of golden ma lie and among whlted cisterns surrounded by cactuses, where one meets superbly draped women bearing water Jars on their heads and re minding one ef some Biblical apparation in a Judean setting. Gayly go the sol diers and their girls, gathering berries from the hedges and red blossoms from betwixt the spines of the caotuses, while down yonder In the gloomy church women In mourning murmur prayers for those who will never return. Paris Figaro. Browning, King & Co GUGINATOBS AND SOLE MAKEIS Ot HALF SIZE IN CLOTHING. EXCEPTS 0 AL And exceptional offers are now being made on our winter suits and overcoats. Their prices were low before when you consider their quality, but at thjs season of the year we are anxious to reduce the bal ance left and have marked the garments at a very low figure to do so. If you come now you will surely pick up a bar gain at most any price you want to pay, from $10.00 to $20.00 Spring Hats are in and ready for your selection. f Hlteenth and lUf OH5AIIA Douglas Sts. NEB. Broodwajr at Had llresl MEW VOBK factory. Cooaeo M-" 1 PRACTICK OF MKDtriXE. Ratended DeSnltlon by a C'onrt of Herorl. Philadelphia Ledger. A New Tork court of record hns given a decision embracing a deAnltlon of the practice of medicine. In view of the defiant attitude of quacks and of peddlers of nos trums, such a deAnltlon waa needed. It formed part of Judge Green's charges to a Jury In the case of a woman who had been discharged upon trial for illegal practice of medicine, and who later sued for ma licious prosecution, losing the second case. Judge Green's deAnltlon Is so lucid and comprehensive as to be worth quoting: "Tho practice of medicine Is the exercise or performance of any act, by or through tho use ot any thing or matter, or by things done, given or applied, whether with or without the use of dings or medicine, and whether with or without fee therefor, by a person holding himself or herself out as able to cure disease, with a view to relieve, heal or cure, and huvlng for Its object the prevention, healing, remedying, cure or alleviation of disease." In this Judge Green was sustained by one colleague, but Judge Deuel wrote an opin ion dissenting at every point. This dissent Is not especially deplored. 1 The woman In question had advertised that she would cure acute and chronlo dis eases. The cases of such as called upon her for treatment were diagnosticated as nervousness. The method the woman em ployed was massage, and for each applica tion she exacted a fee of K. The County Medical society caused her arrest. She escaped conviction, but the subsequent ac tion brought by herself elicited the decision placing her and all her kind under the ban, as clearly was the purpose. The rerson who undertakes to do the work of the doctor, which Is the curing of disease, does not evade repponsiblllty by any trick of method. Whether there, he administration of drugs, the laying on of hands, resort to bread pills, baths, diet ing, blue glass. Incantations or hynotlsm, the operation Is the practice of medicine, in the spirit of'the statute. This statute Is for protection of tho public health, as well as to guard the credulous Invalid from the rapacity of swindlers. Judge Green's view will be accepted as the popular view, not only because It upholds a benign law, but because it Is the expression of plain com mon sense. SMII.IX43 REMARK. 1 iv noiiceo, remarsea c ncpe AJien Sparks, "thut the man who Is always hunt- lug for trouble Ands It some day where he Experience has shown that when there are three children and a grandmother lu the family it Isn't necessary to hire a second girl. Somerville Journal. "Have you ever made any effort to bring your colleagues to your way of thinking?" "No," answered Senator Sorghum. "I don't care anything about their way of thinking. What I want Is to bring them to "I thought the pastor was going to preach a sermon urging th wholesale Investiga tion of business monopolies." "He waa. but one of the trust magnates In the congregation threatened to start an In vestigation of our recent churoh fair." Philadelphia Press. Mr. Justwed It's so sweet of you to agree that we must economize. But do you think you can g"t along without a eookfl Mrs. Justwed Oh, yes. We'll jave all our meals sent In by a caterer. Cleveland Lender. 1 Miss Bunyon I've got tb get myself a pair of shoes and I'm determined to liavS a real nobby pair. I Miss Pert Why, my dear, I'm sire any pair of shoes you would wear would, have to be knobby. Philadelphia Ledger, i "I'm afraid I'll disagree with yo" re marked Jonah as tho whale swallowet him. "Perhaps," replied the whale, "bat It won't be a circumstance to the waytho theologians will disagree when they come to discuss this Incident." Philadelphia. Press. "Please, sir, will you give a dim to a poor orphan?" "Here it is, sonny. Is your father dead?" "No, sir, he's de orphan. Dls money s fer "Your constituents think you are living a him." Cleveland Leader. life of ease In the capital," said the old friend. , " "A life of ease!" echoed Mr. Husklns. "A high collar every day of my, life, stlffenln' in my every-day shirt bosom and suspend ers the whole week through! It's martyr dom, that's what It Is!" Washington Star. TWEJTV YEARS AGO. Milwaukee Sentinel. I've wandered to the village, Tom, and tried to rind the tree On which we carved our names on day when we were happy, free; But there was nothing doing, . Tom; the tree'd been stricken low By the village lumber company sine twenty years ago. The little old red school house, Tom, that stood upon the hill. Is gone, and In Its place a sign reads: "Try a Purple PHI. Where once stood gnarled old apple trees, with fruit a-bendlng low. They've built a modern brewery, Tom since twenty years ago. I Do you remember Geraldlne she of tho None in all the village, Tom, was half so sweet or fslr. I lost my heart completely, Tom, and tried to be her beau She's fat, red faced six children, lorn since twenty years ago. I wandered to the village green where we, when heedless boys, Played one-old-cat and pull-away and knew- so many Joys; ., . .. And Tom, that green is on the bum; It reslly grieved me so To And potatoes growing there since twenty years ago. "Tis sweet to dream of all those things that we In boyhocd knew The school, the green, the meadows where the fragrant blossoms grew; And Tom, I'm not a knocker, but don't pay out hard-earned dough , For railroad fare o vtalt scones of twenty years ago. VALUES