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THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, AUGUST 6, 1906. The Omaha Daily Bee. B. ROSKWATEH, EDITOR. EntirM at Omaha Postofllce M second claaa mattar. TERMS OF BUBfiCRIFTION. pally Bee (without Sunday), one year..H0l I'ailT b and Sunday, ona year SO Sunday Bee, una year l& Saturday Be. on yaar IM LELIVERKn HT CARRIER. Palljr Be (Including Sunday), per week..Lo Dally bee (without Sunday, per week. .Ho Evening Boa (without Bunday), per week 6c Evening Res (with Bunday). per week..lOo Sunday Bee, per copy o Address complaints of Irregularities In ds Ilverjr to City Circulation Department. OFFICES Omaha The Bea Building. South Omaha City Hall Building. Council BlufTa 10 Pearl fit reel. Chicago 1640 Unity Building. New York 16 Home Lite Ina. Building Washington 601 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edi torial matter ahould be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order Payable to The Bee Publishing Company. Only -cent stamps received aa payment of mail accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchnnaea, n"t accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT or CI RClTLATfON. Btata of Nebraska, Douglaa County, ss: C C. Rosewater, general manager of The Bee Publlahlnr company, being duly sworn, saya that tha actual number of full and complete roplea of The Dally, Morning, Evening and Bunaay Bea printed during the month of July, 1906 was as follows: 30,140 ' 31,710 4,830 33,000 83,SO0 31,860 88,230 30,900 1.B30 17.... II.... II... 20... 21... 22... 23... 24... 21... 21... 31,690 31,830 31,680 31,680 33,430 30,500 31,760 31,680 81,630 31.670 10.. 81,660 11 31.630 12 S3,60 II 33,360 14 34,080 it 30,400 2T 31,760 21 39,180 29 30,660 10 31,630 II 8L610 II 33,900 Total 987,860 Less unsold copies 10,866 Net total sales 976,994 Pally average 31.618 C. C. ROSE! WATER, General Manager. Subscribed In my presence and sworn to before ma Ibis list day of July. 1101. (Seal.) M. B. HL'NQATK, Notary Public WHEJI oit or town. Babsorlbera leaving the city torn porarlly should have Tha Baa nailed to them. Address will be ehaaared aa oftea aa required. It is now "up to" the Standard Oil company to demonstrate that its of ficers are as high "proof" as its oil is supposed to be. Perhaps the pertinence of Secretary Taffs remarks in North Carolina Is shown by the reported "split" in the ranks of Texas republicans. The alleged Drug trust asserts that its acts are not in restraint of trade but it may admit that the trading must be done largely on its own terms. i Illinois democrats again proved the extent of their confidence In the pop ular will by naming no candidate for United Statos senator at the primaries. ' ' If France really desires .to solve the problem of church and state it might gain some 'valuable pointers from the course of the United States In 'the Phil ippines. '; The fact that-a "pest ship" has been found at New Orleans may cause re newed inquiry as to what real progress is being made in sanitation In the tropics. Glasgow la certain that municipal ownership of telephone-lines is Inad visable, because Olasgow did not sue coed with it; but Scots are not noted for much talking.' If the railroad pass brigade controls the democratic state convention the author of the book called "The Free Pass Bribe" need not hope to be the gubernatorial nominee, Denaturited alcohol would have no terrors for that woman who has formed the habit of drinking kero Bene but it la strange how new fads playa into the hands of the Standard Oil octopus. The Milan exposition is a fire suf ferer. With examples set at Chicago, Omaha and St. Louis, no modern ex position can be really up to date that does not burn down a building or two before the gates are closed.' Former Congressman Shallenberg er's bid to head the democratic state ticket in Nebraska is very "positive in tone and definite in pcticy" at one or two points, but it is exceeding chary about touching the tree pass question. , Standing in the dawn of its Inter national career Japan may well ex preaa surprise at Oreat Britain's In tentlons to reduce its armament; but when it has had more 4xperlnce it may see the real wisdom of preferring peace, c ' Governor Vardaman's announced op position to the fifteenth amendment will hardly Increase his popularity among southern politicians who realize that negroes create the democratic majorities In the south even though they do not vote. Mayor Dablman's request for the assistance of a federal government ex pert to help him umpire between the rival scale manufacturers has been turned 'downj The mayor will have to fall back upon that famous "back bone" of which such great boast was made during the city campaign. The trolley cars running on the new interurban railroad from Omaha to PapUUos are promised before the 1st of January next. Omaha has been waiting for the gong to sound on these interurban trolley cars for several years, but It has not yet heard the slg nal nd is still In a position where It lll have to be shown. RATI LAW JtSTr)Jrg.VE5r. There seems to bo no good reason why the representatives of the railroad companies should be disappointed at the result of their confernce with the Interstate Commerce commission, which declined to commit Itself st this time on a construction of the new law sought on behalf of the roads. It would be obviously Improper for the three members of the commission present at the conference to bind as to vital points the full body, which under the new law will consist of seven members, nor is it customary or wise for a tribunal exercising pow ers approaching a Judicial character to decide hastily or before the facts are regularly raised before it with jurisdictional authority, as the com mission was asked to do summarily four weeks before the law goes Into effect. But certainly the commission could do no loss than insist, as it did. that the roads shall use diligence in pre paring to file their revised schedules promptly in compliance with the new law, which requires that these be filed and listed in a form to exhibit all rates, fares and charges, and to 'state separately all terminal charges, storage charges, icing charges, and all other charges which the commission may require." The new law is man datory as to these points, and its cen tral purpose obviously is that the pub lic may have plainly before it the means of knowing precisely what ser vices the carrier Is to perform and what is to be paid for them. The first duty of the roads Is to carry out this purpose in good faith. There Is ground at least to suspect the roads of evasive designs In insist ing so strenuously that the commis sion authorize exemption of all export and import traffic from the require-. ments that thirty days' notice of change of rates be given, the ten dency of which would be to leave them in control of the whole import and export freight movement, fixing rates to suit themselves. If this power were granted In connection with an indefinite suspension of the provisions regarding the filing of all schedules of rates, domestic as well as export and import, a long step would have been taken towards nullifying the law. As the very life of the movement for rate control is the enforcement of the law, the commission has determined well In the first critical test against de lays, evasions and precommltments the essence of which, whatever the design, could only be suspension of the law's effect, and which could tend in the long run only to defeat its pur pose. The commission as the respon Bible agency of public authority can be safely trusted by . then carrier companies, to inflict no un necessary hardship upon them in com plying with the law. The Important thing at the start is to have it under stood as a finality that the new rate law was made to be obeyed In all Its provisions.- ".- r A MOCSTAftf VVT OF A MOLEHILL. The latest startling discovery that the proposed constitutional amend ment tor an elective railway commis sion to be submitted to the voters of Nebraska at the coming election is in valid At the outset by failure to pub lish the notices in ample time as re quired by law savors very much of a mountain out. of a molehill. If defec tive publication , really threatened to nullify the ratification the matter would be indeed serious because the railroads which are to be directly af fected could be confidently depended upon, if it served their purpose, td take advantage of every possible tech nicality to avoid regulation even to the extent of attacking the validity of the commission Itself. The point which is sought to . be made is that whereas the constitution specifying the procedure for its own amendment declares that every pro posed amendment shall be "published at least once each week in at least one newspaper in each county where newspaper is published for three months immediately preceding the uext election of senators and repre sentatives," this requirement would not in the present instance be met un less the publication were made the first week in August, the election com. Ing aa it does on November 8. The language here which relates to "three months" Is paraphrased in another part of the constitution in even more specific terms, which declares that bills passed without the emergency clause shall take effect "three calen dar months" after the adjournment of the session, and which has already been construed by our supreme court. The decision Is la the case of Mc Ginn against the state, decided in 189S with an elaborate decision by Judge Post. The point was raised whether a law enacted by the legislature which ntd adjourned April 8 was or was not in effect July 19, when a capital crime was committed. After quoting the constitutional provision the court Bald: Tha precise question presented la, -When did tha constitutional period ef three cal endar months after the adjournment of that session terminate? Tha term "month" at common tow. whether employed tn stat utes or contracts, unlaaa a different mean ing was apparent from tha text, was held to mean a lunar month of twenty-eight days, except In ecclesiastical affairs and as applicable to cewmerclal paper. In this country many of tha earlier cases followed the rule of the common law. Later cases have, as a rule, construed the word "month" when It does not appear to have been used In a different sense, to mean a "calendar month." In order to avoid the confusion arising from tha conflicting con structions of the term thirty-Ave states and territories have by legislative enactment declared tha term "month" whan used with out qualification to mean a -calendar month." The conclusion of the court after reviewing a large number of cases Is aa follows: , j Th natural and necessary deduction from the authorities cited Is that Ihe term "cal endar month" as used In the constitution had. prior to the adoption of that Instru ment In 1T5, received a definite Interpreta tion and la to be computed not by counting days, but by looking at the calendar and terminates with the day numerically corre sponding to the d.-iy of Its commencement less one In the following month; and such Is evidently the sense In which It Is cm ployed In the constitution. If a law enacted by a legislature which closed Its session on April 8 to go into effect "three calendar months" hereafter becomes operative July 9 following, then a constitutional amendment which must be published once each week for "three months" preceding an election to be held No vember 6, must surely have the neces sary publication if the notices appear once each week for four weeks in Au gust, when the month commences as It does this year with the middle of the week. The people of Nebraska are not going to be fltmflammed out of their opportunity to secure the rail road commission they have so long de manded by any such pretext which the railroads may set up. FOB E I3 X MKtT DlSCLOSVRES. If the exposures concerning condi tions in the preparation of meat and other foods In Germany and England continue as they have begun, there will be less squeamishness here and abroad from memory of what was re ported last spring regarding the Chi cago packing house Industries. Neither in point of fllthlness of disgusting ma terials has anything been shown here that approaches the story of German sausages and tinned "delicacies", which have been favorites when Im ported to this country, or the simul taneous story regarding confection and Jelly factories, creameries and bak erles In London. The German sau sage revelations harmonise with pre vious consular reports showing slaughter within a year of nearly 10,000 dogs for fresh meat trade un der official Inspection In a territory in cluding only a few provinces, which of course did not include the dogs unof ficially slaughtered. But the more recent reports which. while authentic, are sensational, are not to be soberly taken as representa tive of the German sausage manufac ture In general, any more than dis gustlng circumstances in- some of the Chicago establishments were ever rep resentative of American meat pro ducts. They are exceptions, and rare exceptions, in one case as In the other. The result of It all, however, will be to bring a knowledge of the true sit uation, and to reassure the public of the cleanliness and wholesomeness of our meats, especially under the oper ation of our new national Inspection law. DOLLAR-DONATIONS TO DATE. It has now been more than a month since Colonel Bryan issued the order that subscriptions to the $10,000 fund tor defraying the expenses o,f the New York ., reception to himself must be preferably tl each and in no case to exceed $50. Up to August 3 the ag gregate amount contributed under this ukase had reached $3, one of the dol lars coming from Pennsylvania, one from Washington and one from Del a ware. The west and the south where the masses of the plain people are supposed to reside, as well as plu tocratic New York and New England are thus alike absent from the list It is likewise authentically reported that on the same date only $800 of the required amount had been raised and that, too, by the somewhat tainted method of selling boxes for the Mad ison Square Garden meeting At $50 each, in spite of the fact that varioua cities have been applied to for finan cial aid. The progress of the $1 popular sub scription plan for political purposes. Including the flotation of party cam paigns, will be watched with no small degree of interest, as both the repub lican national campaign committee and Mr. Gompers on behalf of hla new labor party are also resorting to It this year. Theoretically the plan should produce millions, assuming re sponse in the spirit of the appeal. However, financial theory is not al ways verified by fact, as was shown by Colonel Sellers' operations. Chief of Police Donahue calls atten tion to the fact that the Inauguration of a workhouse In Denver has had the effect of driving the hoboes and tramps in this direction, Omaha being down on the map as an attractive re sort tor vicious Idlers without any rock pile to mar its beauty. The Bee has emphasized this point time and again, but the workhouse is still in the fu ture, while the hoboes are in the present. - Democratic organs, which could not conceal their frantic anxiety for Gov ernor Cummins to win out for a third terra nomination, have already started after liiui hammer and tongs now that he has the nomination. The demo cratic program, not only In Iowa, but everywhere, Is to fan dissension In the republican ranks Just as far as it can be turned to advantage for democratic political capital. The specially employed expert ac countant checking over city books and records has so far discovered nothing particularly of a questionable nature reflecting on any of the city officials of the last administration. Unless he uncovers something crooked, however, the democratic mayor and council who hired him will not be satisfied that he Is earning his money. The only democratic mayor of con sequence in Nebraska whose name does not grace the list of special am bassadors to be sent to New York to hold out the glad hand to Colonel Bryan ia Mayor Hoctor of South Omaha. What' the matter with South Omaha? Are not the demo cratic votes In the Magic City worth cultivating? Loeattaa- Tewae. Kansas City Times. Congressman Charles A. Towns of New York expresses bis willingness to accept tha democratic nomination for vice presl dent In IPns. Mr. Towne will be remem bered as the man who "exposed Roosevelt'' last winter. Appetlslit, Too. Chicago Inter-Ocean. In pitching hay at his summer home President Roosevelt comes aa near aa possible to leading what may be properly galled the simple life. There is nothing simpler than pitching hay. All you have to do Is to keep on pitching It. Everybody Satisfied. Chicago Record-Herald. Announcement Is made that the prices of women's hats are to be higher, owing to the fact that the ladles have been buying fewer hats than usual this season. There Is no Indication, however, that any of the grand Juries will consider the matter. Fire aad Costs. Kansas City Times. King Alfonso's feat of riding his horse up the stairway of the royal palace in Madrid and Into the dowager queen's draw ing room is referred to ss an exhibition of 'fearless horsemanship." The same feat by an humble cltisen would have resulted in a charge of "drunk and disorderly." Profanity and Provoeatloa. Boston Globe. Sixteen telephone girls at Champaign, III., have struck, alleging that the male employee of the company Indulge In too much profanity In the operating room and that the manager declines to stop It. This does not speak well for the manager. Profanity Is unjustifiable, even with all the provocation that exists In a telephone exchange. Towne and Bryan. i New York, Bun. The reluctance of Charles A. Towne to have his name on any presidential ticket not headed by Mr. Bryan is superfluous concern on hla part. The consent of Tarn many Hall, which put Towne Into congress, would have to be asked, and an Indignant protest would be entered by that old re tainer and faithful servant of the organ Itatlon the Honorable William Bulser. As to Towne's being associated with William J. Bryan, that gentleman would have to be consulted, and he la shrewd enough to see that there are no votes In tha ex-republlcan and ex-popullst settled in New York as a Tammany recruit PERSONAL NOTES. Rev. Leonard Cox. editor of the Char lotte. Va., Oatette. enjoys the distinc tion of being the oldest active editor In the south. Mr. Cox Is 88 years of sge. Captain Bverdrup, the Arctic explorer, who has recently added 100,000 square miles of Ice to the King of Sweden's do minions, spent his boyhood days on a forest farm. . Carlos Wilson, a famous collector of Napoleons, who had 200 volumes and 9,000 portraits and rare prints of the great Coralcan, recently died. In Boston. His collection Is the finest ,ln America, If not In tha world. . . Prince Qulnlo, son of the exiled ex King of Dahomey, from sheer boredom and lack of facilities foe amusement at tempted to commit' sulof at 'Algiers. Ha declared thst life was - not worth .'living without some form othamueement. The officials of the ' Pension" office think they have discovered In Lyston D. Howe, of Streator, 111., the youngest volunteer of the civil war. He enlisted first ln 1861, when only 10 years and I month old, and again tn 1802, -when U years and 6 months oldand served until the end of the war. William Winter, the ' veteran dramatic critic of the New. York Tribune, has for the past fifteen years refused to go up to the editorial rooms In what used to be called "the tall tower'' either by stair case or by elevator, but has written his dramatic criticisms on a window ledge In , the ground floor business office. Mr. Win ter Is 70 years old. , Henry C. Frlck's new home, which has been In course of construction at Prides Crossing, Mass., for the last two years, Is about ready for occupancy. It con talna a swimming pool connected directly with the Atlantic ocean, so that the bather merely has to turn a stopcock to obtain the pleasures of a swim in the sea without leaving the house. Mme. Clara Butt, the famous English singer, states that one of the greatest and slncerest compliments she ever received was given In Paris some years ago. She had been singing In a concert at a private hnim when an old lady came up and shook her hands. "My child." she said. "vou are an artist: you have tears In your voice. For the first time I have heard my dear husband's song sung aa he would have wished to hear It. Let ih.nu vr.ii" The old lady was tne widow of Gounod, tha great composer. POPULAR ELECTION. OP SENATORS'. Mlcalsraa Reaaalleaaa Iastrael Dele- rates to Dea Moines Coavention. rhlcaa-o Record-Herald. The renuhllcan stats convention of Michi gan has adopted resolutlona urging tha Mlchlaan delegatea to the ues aioine. .r v.nttnn on the popular election or u-n which Is aoon to meet, to' work in ravor . onnatltntlonal amendment, i mm i . more of tha Indications which, taaen to gether, go to show that the Des Moines convention will voice a very strong punuc sentiment for the immediate Introduction of the reform. Indeed, tha sentiment In fsvor of dlre.t election la apt to be so nearly unanimous that very possibly the main argument will be on the point as to whether the end can heat be obtained through a constitutions amendment or by the voluntsry action of tha aeoarate atates In establishing direct prlmartea. which will b In practice, though not legally, binding on the state legisia turea So many atates now have adopted the direct primaries that many people believe a good argument for that method of at talnlng tha desired end can be made Texas Is the latest state to adopt It, and Senator Bailey has Just been endorse for re-election unopposed. At least seven o eight other statea will be In the list of those making such nomination this sum mer and fall. Nevertheless, there Is a number of e- Hous defects In the primary method. ia not so simple, definite and sure of re suits as the direct election proper would be. It works with fair satisfaction In states In which one party has a permanen majority over tha other, aa tn the south em atates. but It Is much less successful In ststes where the power Is more even! divided. It binds down the state Ieg1!.v lures to partisanship at the very mo mer when the movement to set them free from such domination has the beat chance for progress. The popular primaries are beat regarded not as a substitute for popular election but as a step toward 1L SEBRABKB SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN. A Vale la Legislative Work. Madison Chronicle (rep ). Many of tha newspapers which are sup porting Norrls Brown's candidacy for t'nl led States senator have adopted the six teen to one policy sixteen columns of falsehoods against Rosewater to one In favor of Brown. Their ambition Is not to elect Brown but to defeat Rosewater st any cost. Fortunately the latter's record n public questions Is too well known to be falsified by such a course, and the people 111 not he deceived or hoodwinked by mls- tatement of facta. Rosewater Is steadily gaining ground and almost every day brings new accessions to his list of sup. porters. The people are tired of being represented by drones or corporstlon tools but they want a representative who will become a useful, active member at once nd be a force In the legislative work along the lines laid out by President Roose- elt. Real Sentiment of the Majority. Blair Courier (rep). We believe the real sentiment of the majority of the republicans of the county la In favor of Edward Rosewater for sena tor. Brown Is msklng a good tight against the railroads, but Rosewater has been msk lng a good fight against them for thirty years. Brown Is a young man and will yet win his spurs, while Rosewater Is getting well along In, years and this probably will be his last chance for eenatorshlp. Rose water has led the antl-corporstlon fight In Nebraska for years and now that an antl corporatlon senator Is to be chosen we believe Rosewater Is entitled to the honor. Not that Brown Is not as good sn snti, but, being younger. Is less entitled to the toga. lTnder these circumstances the Courier Is In fax-or of sending a delegation from this county Instructed for Rosewater for sena tor and Sheldon for governor. Delegates who would be for these two men could be trusted to vote for every other man on the stats ticket who stands for the same things these men stand for freedom from railroad rule In the state. howlnar Intemperate Temper. Grand Island Independent (rep). A rather umiaual proceeding was had at the Epworth assembly at Lincoln yester day, when a resolution was adopted by a unanlmoua vots "recognising In Edward Rosewater an open and avowed champion of the liquor traffic, a rriend of the lawless and Immoral element and an unfit repre sentative of the best sentiment ana cm- tenehlp of Nebraska." and making an 'rs nnnl to the Christian voters or this nmwt state not to support any candi date to the coming legislature who will vote for Mr. Rosewater for United Btates senator." Has Mr. Rosewater been a friend of the lawless and the Immoral? H Mr. Rosewster s life not been in nar- mony with sobriety? He has. It Is true, never been a temperate prohibitionist, but can It be fairly said that he has been an enemy to good cltlsenshlp? Buccees to tne fair the -ood. the educating work or tne Epworth league; and success to the work of every church In bringing about better conditions, temperance In all things and the general Improvement of society. Incidental with the main purpose or spiritual worn. But let it be fair. Mr. Rosewater is not h first choice of the Independent for United States senator because It believes that his nomination will draw upon tne .ii,., . ,,nncressarv flctit and endanger i.. .......... nut the rhare-e that Mr. nose 119 . . - -.... i. n anher pit sen. and not a gooa cltisen. and Is the friend of the Immoral Is so grossly Intemperate and unjust inai It is to be regretted. Ko More Railroad Senators. Vni-k Ttanubllcan (rep.). v.hruki legislature assembles T llll til" " ' ' ' ... i. ..in k. nothina- to do on tne senatorial question but ratify the selection of the people of the state expressea inrougn m, .i.nt.n in the state convention. Thle Is on the supposition that the legislature Is republican. There la no question inn by this method the selection of senator Is hroiivht much nearer to tha people than It has ever been before, much nearer In it nrnhehintv. than It can ever be brougnt by any other method. Until United States un.inn are elected on that Issue, . and nledred beforehand to It, there is no nope of ever having the constitution so amenaeu tn nrovfde for the election of senators hi 41pot vote So the convention method. expressed through delegatea Instructed on the senatorial question, which the people Mil. aelaed iinon In their dlsarust With the old legislative method, seemed to offer the only thoroughfare out of the Jungle. And n MtiMn of Kehrnslca ran find any reaaon- abla ground for objecting to It unless he wants to see kept Intsct the means by which the state has been loaded with rall- rrtA machine senators since time whereof the memory of man runneth 'not to the contrary. No Corporation Controls Him. Beatrice Times (rep.). The following paragraph, which we clip from an article In the DeWItt Times-News on the senatorial sttustlon, appeals to us as a very fair statement of the esse. It la Idle to contend that the supporters of Mr. Brown are guided entirely by patri otic Impulses. They are actuated largely by a dealrs to win, In order to have In the senate a man upon whom they can rely for favors of one kind and another. The Times-News says: Norrls Brown Is the choice, In fsct the creature, of the Elevator trust, the North western railroad and the Btste Journal. Rosewater represents the opposition. We have no doubt thst the Burlington will units with him for the sske of defeating the common enemy, but that doea not mean that they can control him as sena tor. History for thirty years precludes the Idea that Rosewater can be controlled by anybody. Slalaa- I p the Bltaatloa. . Waterloo Oasette (rep.). As the time v for the republican state convention approaches, the altuatlon as It affects the senatorial fight begins to look right Interesting. Up to Monday there had been oj delegates selected, of which num ber 33( had been Instructed on senator. Of these E. Rosewater haa 107 Instructed and claims eighty-eight of the unlnstrucled. Norrls Brown has 124 Instructed and Tha Bee gives him thirty of the unlnstrucled delegates, making his total 184 as against Rosewater'a 196. If this estimate be cor rect and the same proportion be kept up, Rosewater will be easy winner. We hope, both for Douglas county and Rosewater personally, that It ia a correct forecast of tha coming result on the senatorshtp. Mast Make a Choleo. Wood River Interests (rep.). It's Brown or Rosewater. Which looks tha best to you? Mahlnsx Them Go Borne. Springfield Monitor (dem.). Whether Roaewater geta to be senator or not he Is surely making the railroads and corporations go some. Bancroft Blade (rep.). , Senator Millard's private secretary says he Is advised that "ths prominent poli ticians In this locality ars opposed to ths convention plan of endorsing a candidate for tha United States senate." Wa do not know "ths prominent politicians," but ws do know from the mouths of the common people thst they favor the plan, and about to per cent of thsm favor Edward Rose water. SHOW TLACRS H W ASHltOTOl. Bom Interesting Information from aa Official Report. Figures don't He. Statistics are slso sl wsys Infallible; but, nevertheless, officials who have Just seen Colonel Rromwell's annual report on public buildings and grounds, submitted to Oeneral Msckensie. chief of engineers, are dubiously studying his table showing the number of. persons who ascended the Wsshlngton monument during the past year. The whole number for the year Is neither above not below the nverage for the last seventeen years. The usual 90 per cent of the visitors were Inoculated with the lasv bug and took advantage of the electric elevator, while the remaining 10 per cent climbed the long stairway to the top of the monument. So far so good. But when It comes to the classification by months, officials balk at the figures. For In the balmy spring month of April, which had more visitors than any other month last year, fewer persons availed themselvee of the stairway than In the hot, sultry, sticky month of August, when 8.M4 persons out of a possible li.!W) climbed the endless stairs vflth the Affleck ther mometer soaring around the 100 mark. Official Washington ponders over this fsct. Several stats officials Ttave stated In good set terms that more Information Is wanted In the next report. It Is under stood from high suthotity that the genial superintendent of public buildings and grounds will be asked to compile statis tics the coming year on the avoirdupois of those persons who slghtsee the top of the monument with a velw to explaining why, In the hottest month of the year. when Old Sol was sending his burnished shafts straight down Into the Washington asphalt snd concrete, that a 650-foot stair way looked better to humanity thsn an easy running, nolsless electric elevator. Colonel Bromwell reports that 14M7S per sons looked out of the little windows st the top of the monument during the year. Of this number M.S70 walked, while 125. fir took advantage of the elevator. January was the poorest month for monument busi ness, as only .flo persons visited the shaft's top that month. August saw 15.S44 on top of the monument, and was accorded the banner month of the report. Falling In line with the economical ad ministration, or fearing a visit of the Keep commission. Colonel Bromwell dispensed with the visitor's register on the top floor as being too expensive, In that the hook was filled up In three months, "and a jt appeared that from three to four of these large books would be required each year, the Idea of maintaining a register was abandoned." At any rate 80.W4 persons In scribed their names In the first volume. The care of the White House and execu tive grounds Is one of the Interesting sec tions of Colonel Bromwell's report. There are many details In the work on the execu tive mansion which require minute atten tion from one year's end to the other. Most of the work, of course, is done when ths president Is on his vacation, and It Is pos sible for workmen to work freely In all parts of the building. The decorstlons of the building need careful attention always, and the paint and enamel work has to be kept clean and free from all marks and scratches. The hardwood floors have to be watched closely and. cared for whenever a flaw Is seen In their finish. More sttentlon than the aver age person supposes Is given to minor de tails in ths care of the White House, for dally many persons visit the building, and It Is necessary to have It spick and span at all times. The celling snd woodwork of ths Green Room were newly painted during the last year, and new velour covering hung on the walls. The windows of this room were draped with materials similar to the wall hangings. The - only repair necessary In the famous East Room was ths rednlahing of the hardwood floor. In tha Red Room some repairs were made to the marble sub-base. Further attention was given to ths state dining room, where the old calcimine was cleansed from the celling and paint ap plied In Its place. The woodwork of this room was reflniehed, and some repairs were made to the marble sub-base. Minor repairs were made In the private dining room and the ushers' room. The columns In the corridor were reflnlshed. Much spare Is given to a number of miscellaneous repairs made In various parts of the man sion. Special precautions against fire In the White House have been taken by the equip ment of the attic with a fire alarm gong, which Is operated from the ushers' room on the first floor. By this means It Is pos sible to notify the whole household the mo ment a Are Is discovered. The social functions which were arranged for by Colonel Bromwell's office are given as the three state dinners, Ave musicalea, eight receptions and one lecture. The additional events st the Whits House are not named, only those of a Strictly official nature being mentioned. Many Improvements were made In the president's office building, most of them relating to the Interior decorations. The executive grounds have been kept In good condition. The report recommends sn ln- cresse of the spproprlatlon for this purpose from $4,ono to $6,0f, to make further Im provements In the gardens. In the parks of Washington. Colonel Brom well states there were planted 23,000 pansies and 81,000 Aowerlng bulbs for early bloom. In tha spring of 1WS the beds and vases were planted with S72.K1 bedding and trop ical plants for summer decoration. Special efforts were made during ths last year to remove tha unsightly bare placea The Song of the Hair There are four verses. Verse i. Ayers Hair Vigor makes the hair grow. Verse 2. Ayer's Hair Vigor stops falling hair. Verse 3. Ayer's Hair Vigor cures dan druff. Verse 4. Ayer's Hair Vigor al ways restores color to gray hair. The chorus is sung by millions, in all lands. The best kind of a testimonial "Sold for over sixty years" ataSs ths I. O. Arer Cm., Lewell. Km. Aiee HaaaiMturers ef AY1B B SA8ArSttLA-?or tk. fctooa. ATBB't FILL-Per eoastipatioa. ATSB CHKiKT PBCTOaAX-Fot soag mm. ATEE'S Au0 CO It foe SMlanaaasSgas. on the Iswa stirfsces by resoddlng. Te this end 10.MB square yards of sod were used. The flower beds on ths terraoe esplan ades of the rapltol grounds were furnished with 15.(M bedding plant bulb, etc.. In addition, 4S ornamental dwarf evergreen tree, 1,13 flowering shrubs and Bis oak trees were planted here. Colonel Rromwell ssks for sn Increase of M a year for the landscape gardener. He saya "ths gentleman who oofmplea this position hsa held It for thirty-five years, and haa had charge almost from the beginning of the park system of Wash. Ington. He Is constantly reeelvtruc offers of sn Increase of salary from outside par ties, but prefers to stay here." His salary la now $2 OPO. The first case of vandalism that has occurred In connection with the monument was the chipping of two corners by a "person or persons unknown" last August. The rooms and walls of the house where Abraham IJneoln died on Tenth street were repapered snd painted. In the propagating gardens, more than l.ono.flOO plants were propagated during the year, and t.TM trees and 8.146 shrubs were planted In the various park. In addition to these, there were propagated 44,000 plants for other departments ef the ror em ment, and about 16,000 distributed to hospitals snd government offices. Colonel Bromwell recommends that an thorlty be given Mm tn erect temporary structures on the children's playgrounds for shelter snd for use of the children In their gsmes. but he Is not permitted to do this now, ss congress prohibits the erection of temporary structures of sny kind upon sny reservstlon except when authorised by special act Of congress. The cost of cleaning up the White House grounds after ths children's annual egg rolling on Easter Monday was $3868. The litter made by them In the Eclipse of the President's park on the sams day was cleaned up at a cost of $19. There was one additional space added to the park system by transfer of 6.848 square feet of street srea to the chief of engineers for park purposes. There Were three unimproved reservations Improved. There were 4.4i feet of cement concrete coping snd forty-one comer posts con st rueted around ten reservations. An Increase of tsoo is asked for In the spproprlatlon of flt.&no for ths purpose of lighting the executive mansion and pub lic grounds. MOSDAY MERRIME.1T. . "Pop!'' "Ys, my son." "You've on ii to Russia, haven't your ' "Yos, my boy." "Well, pop, it must sound funny to hear a horse neigh In Russian!" Yonkers States, man. Mrs. Hicks John. I'm sure there's a burglar down In the dining room. Mr. Hicks (sleepily) Good I If we Veep 3 u let maybe he'll take away that chaflng lsh of yours. Philadelphia Ledger. . Father That kid ought to have a spank ing! He's altorther too precocious; knows more than I dol Mother But dear, t wouldn't call that precocious. Detroit Free Press. Silas Hayfleld That stuff growing eve there Is cat-tails. Miss flummerglrl Do they have to pull them up to gt the cats? Life. . Pottle I wonder If a blonde Is mora at tractive to men than a brunette? Lottie Ask Tottlo; she's been both. Cleveland Leader. "I can't understand what there Is so at tractive about Emily. She hasn't any ao comDllahmenta All ,h. i. .A . -n. .little and smile a great deal." . , eno"sn, isn t It7"-Cleveiand Plain Dealer. AN OPTIMIST. P. A. Day. In Catholic Standard and Time. Qojpda-morn'., Slgnor! Eea Una ;dy. , Eh? Scusa ire, but w'at ees dat you" say? You, see eea many words sen 'Merlcaa I am too old an dumb for ondrastan', O! yea I know eet rains, but what ees dees New name you call? Eh? W'at ees optlmees?' " O! dat sa mean I am "so alwsya glad?" Ah! wal. Slgnor, eet la no use be sad. Da days weell come, sn' eef dey rain or snow Res mak' no dee Iterance; dey soon weell BO, An I am glad for see da days go by. why am I glad, Slgnor, you aaka why? I Ilka mooch for tal you, but, you see, I a,m afraid dat you weell laugh at me. You mak' so moocha fun wseth me bay fore, I am sfrald you do eet now, Slgnor. Eh? No? Wal, den, my frand. I tai you why I am so glad for see da days go by. You see, dere eesa sweeta, prltta. girl Dat I am lova more dan all da worF. An' ehe eea gatta love for me so great She tai me she be true sn" she weell v.-alt O! please, SIngor, an1 don'ta smlla so; enow m you WM" no 'ueh. you Ah! yes, you theenk bsycause I am so old My heart eet should be dead, my blooda cold; An' so I should no speak, baycause I aee You no can help, Slgnor, from laugh at me. No? 'Seuaa me, I theenk you laugh. AM wal. My story Is no verra mooch to tai. Dees pretta girl I speaks "bout to you. She tal tne she eea lova me so true Ees notheeng evra gona stop her be Forevra an' forevra Jua" for me. -So, dat eos all. Slgnor, an' dat .ees why I sm so glad for sea da days go by, Baycauae da time ees sonna comln' w'sn 1 gona hold dees sweeta girl agen. . Eh? No, Signer, she's no sen Eetaly. O! No. you no can guess who ceea she Eet ees no posseeble for you to know. Baycause she dls so many year ago. I a'poee eea forty year, an' mabtoe more. Since time w'en she ees son' away. Slgnor; Dat's why you nevva hear of eet bay fore. Ah! thanks, Slgnor, for spoaka so. You see, I was afraid dat you would laugh at
