THE OMAHA DAILY BEE; SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 100(5.
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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.
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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.
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