THE OMAILV DAILY BEEt "WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 190G.
Tim Omaha Daily Bee
rOLNDKD BI EDWARD ROBE WATER.
VICTOR HOSIi WATER, EDITOR.
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County.es:
Charles C. Kosewater, general manager
of The Bee Publishing company, being duly
aworn, says that the actual number of full
and complete copies of The Dally, Morning,
Evening and Sunday Res printed during the
month or November, lJOfl, wns a follows;
1 33,740
2 31,860
1 31,860
f 30,500
I : 31,070
33.160
t 33,530
1 33.450
31,320
10 33,030
11 30,560
12 31,550
II 31,040
It 31,380
It. 31,330
16 31,180
31,390
II 30,600
It 31,430
20 31,770
11 31.400
22 31,160
21 31,800
24 31,680
25 30,450
21 31,400
27 31,850
18 31,480
29 31,650
10 31,630
Total 151,910
Less unsold copies 8,878
Net total sales 843,033
bally averaga 31,401
CHARLES C. ROSE WATER,
General Manager.
Subscribed In nay presence and sworn to
before me this 1st day of December, 1906.
(Seal.) M. B. HI' NO ATE,
Notary Public.
WHEN OCT OF TOWH.
labarribers leaving; the city lem.
orarlly shoaiil have The lire
mailed to them. Address will he
Changed as ulltu aa reqoted.
As to the South Omaha postofflce
ill's well that ends well.
Ralsoull'B uiauneaLo to foreign pow
er is probably only a Moorish hint
!or a Christmas present.
The truant umcei who has bu.'v
bringing the bad boys of Omaha to
lime has himself been called to ac
count. Turn about la fair play.
If western larmers are -compelled to
burn corn for fuel the railroads may
find the' tralHc congestion broken In a
way that will figure In the gross re
ceipts. "In illustraun nia ineasuge on Pan
ama the president has broken another
precedent, and from appearances he
frill soon break a precedent every day
he does not break one.
t The proimoo oi the railroads to re
lieve the congestion of traffic in
twenty-four hourB Indicates that the
present condition Is not lrremedlal In
spite of all recent statements.
The stmeuieui' mat President
Roosevelt Is interested In relieving the
car shortage is unnecessary, since It
goes without saying he is Interested In
every phase of American prosperity.
France couldn't afford to strike a
blow at the olive oil industry and
therefore the duty will not be In
creased on American cottonseed oil,
which goes abroad to change its name.
Senator Bailey might regain all his
lost popularity In Texas by teaching
his constituents how to extract money
from trust magnates without making
any promises or performing any ser
vice. The intimation that Germany is
more friendly to the United States
than formerly shows the wisdom of
the emperor, who probably desires to
keep a tariff discussion out of his
pending campaign.
In deciding to recognize the con
stitution of the United States as the
supreme law of the land, Oklahoma
has bowed to the inevitable despite
the large proportion of former Kan
sans In Its population.
President ilarriman Is said to have
defeated President Hill In the contest
for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
railroad; but the gentleman from the
north will probably hold his cards un
til tLe game Is ended.
The captain who rau a Hamburg
Amertran liner aground off Port Royal
forthwith committed suicide. Were
this habit to be taken up by the rail
way trainmen responsible for railroad
wrecks, our suicide statistics would
suddenly take a tremendous jump.
The report that Japan Intends to
raise enough cotton In Corea and
enough wheat In Manchuria to supply
Asia points out a prospective field of
operation for American machinery
makers; but Yankee cotton and core
will continue to supply the demand
for several years.
. And now the democrats propose to
have a program for the minority mem
bers of the coming Nebraska legisla
ture. The Nebraska democrats never
had a program when they were In the
majority and were In position to make
it effective. The very fact that the
proposed program Is to be merely
tiruamental is the only thing that may
get the democrats together upon it.
X KRRAtitCA'R RAtLWAT TAX CA SES.
Attorney General Drown Is to be
commanded for acquiescing In the da'e
of January 22 for the argument in the
Nebraska railway tai rases before the
United States supreme court, this being
the earliest time for which the argu
ment could he pt. The attorney gen
eral from the start has been urging
promptness nd expedition In reaching
a final judgment so that the strained
financial condition of many counties
and school districts deprived of their
railroad taxes for three successive
years might be relieved at the earliest
possible moment. The railroad 1 law
yers, on the other hand, have been
playing for delay and postponement at
every stage, having prevented argu
ment last October on the flimsy pre
text of a vacant supreme court Judg
shlp and a burning desire to have the
case tried by a full bench.
The confirmation of Attorney Gen
eral Moody as Justice of the supreme
court and his Induction into office
leaves the railroad attorneys without
excuse for further dilatory proceedings.
That they hit upon the date January
22 for the argument, being the very
day that the legislature will ballot on
United States senator, was doubtless
with a view to eliciting objections from
Attorney General Brown, who natur
ally would like to be present when he
Is elected to the United States senate.
The fact that he will before that time
have ceased to be attorney general
and that his appearance In the argu
ment of the cases at Washington will
be as a volunteer assistant to the new
attorney general might have justified
such objections or e,ven withdrawal
from the case, but in foregoing per
sonal attendance upon the legislature
during the balloting for senator In
order to look after the interests of Ne
braska taxpayers as against the tax
shirking railroads, Mr. Brown has,
doubtless, again disappointed the rail
road lawyers, while his absence will
hardly affect the result of the sena
torial election.
At all events, we have a reasonable
prospect now of finding out before
many months whether or not the su
preme court as the highest appellate
tribunal will affirm or reverse the
lower federal courts, which have uni
formly held against the preposterous
contention of the railroads that they
have a right to pay whatever taxes
they choose while other property own
ers must accept the valuations the as
sessors and reviewing boards fix for
them.
NO QEXKRiL COAL FAMIXE.
There seems to be substantial
ground for anticipating that relief will
not long be delayed for whatever fuel
famine may exist. Complaint has been
heard from comparatively few spots
and these confined i...nclpally to lim
ited regions in North Dakota and
Washington, in both of which rail
road operations have been recently In
terrupted, In the former by snow
drifts and in the latter by washouts.
The preference to coal laden cars now
being given by the roads serving those
sections ought to and doubtless will
speedily remove any serious suffering
or danger.
The facts officially reported by the
Department of Commerce In the fall
proved that the general supply of both
hard and soft coal was ample and,
Indeed, unusually large, mining hav
ing been very active and successful
through the Bummer and great stocks
having been accumulated at most of
the distributing centers in good time
for dispatch for local consumption.
Though great pressure now "generally
rests upon railroad facilities, the re
sponsibility for fuel shortage at the
threatened points does not appear to
belong altogether upon the transporta
tion companies. There Is a well
known tendency of dealers Us the
small towns to carry small stocks or
to procrastinate in providing winter
supplies, and back of them consumers
are often at fault In the same way.
The press for rolling stock for crop
market in the late autumn is a cer
tainty that should be foreseen by fuel
dealers and consumers as well as by
the carriers. If they are forehanded
no good reason exists why the grain
rush or interruption of communica
tions by winter storms should cause
serious fuel trouble anywhere, though
it is natural, when trouble occurs, that
the dealers, the consumers and the
carriers should each blame the other.
STATUS RIGHTS IX OKLAHOMA.
The Oklahoma constitutional con
vention has, of course, donu well to
put In the organic law an explicit
acknowledgment that the constitu
tion of the United States is paramount
and supreme In the new state, but it
Is not creditable that so Btronu an
effort bhould have been made for con
tradiction of that doctrine. A heresy
that has so many shot holes In It as
that of uKia state sovereignty ought,
of all places, to be most completely
tabooed in Oklahoma, and especially
at this time when it is seeking admis
sion to statehood under national sov
ereignty. The most singular circumstance is
that It should have been the extreme
radicals, professing to aim at most
drastic public control of corporations,
aggregated wealth and cognate sub
jects, who have insisted on so pre
posterous a form of states rlghtism
In the Oklahoma constitution. The
notorious fact is that the recent
recrudescence of that doctrine has
bee a attempted by the- champions of
law-defying wealth, precisely as at an
earlier epoch it was employed In de
fense of the Institution of slavery.
Of course no denial or affirmation
by such a local body of the supremacy
of the national constitution could af
fect the fact of its supremacy, but
no community has such on opportun
ity as is now before the people of
Oklahoma for dealing thoroughly and
progressively In their own organic
law. This la particularly true because
In framing their constitution they are
free from many of the embarrassments
of the older states In connection with
these vital economic Issues. It will
be their own fault If they fall, and
failure will only render Inevitable and
more necessary the remedies which the
American people will find under the
national constitution.
MKTCALrS SAX ERAXCISCO HE PVR T-
The point in Secretary Metcalf'a re
port of his investigation of the Japa
nese school trouble at San Francisco,
which the president has transmitted to
congress, that will at once etrlke pub
lic attention is the trivial basis on
which the agitation on the Pacific
coast rests. It has been assumed in
the country at large, simply because
of the volume and violence of the anti
Japanese outcry, that the San Fran
cisco schools must be menaced by
some grave peril of contamination and
debasement, although specific ex
planation has been wholly wanting.
The most Impressive allegation was
a vague suggestion of the evils of the
presence of largo numbers of adult
Japanese among the little children in
the schools.
A revulsion of general feeling can
hardly fall to be caused by the official
statement of the San Francisco Board
of Education ' to Secretary Metcalf
showing that the total number of
Japanese in twenty-three schools Is
only ninety-three, of whom none is
over 20 years of age and only twelve
over 17, and that five is the largest
number in any one school, and, more
over, that no complaint has ever been
made to the board or to any other
school authority of the conduct of
these Japanese pupils. It was doubt
less knowledge of these and similar
facts that sharpened the president's
pen In drafting the portion of his
message dealing with the Japanese
question.
Whatever may be the legal and con
stitutional status of the Japanese un
der the rules of the San Francisco
School board and the segregating act
of the California legislature, it will
strike the average observer as pre
posterous that International relations
and vast commercial interests should
be involved in such trivial circum
stances. Stranger still is It that the
offending occasion should arise in San
Francisco which, more than any other
part of our country, would be hurt if
the Japanese should seriously take the
matter to heart, as so sensitive and
proud a people might do, and retaliate.
Our exports to Japan last year ex
ceeded 150,000,000 and have been in
creasing at a rate that opens a splen
aa -..o. . j .
dld prospect of trade, not to speak
or. me general market in the orient.
wnicn also would be struck a deadly
blow by a Japanese boycott and de
termination for revenge.
It may be that local prejudice is bo
purblind as to disregard such national
Interests, as well as justice and fair
dealing, though the contrary Is to be
sincerely hoped, but In the light of
the facts as they now officially appear
the government and the people of the
whole country will not fall at least
to show that they have no sympathy
with such perversity, and to do all
they can to atone for It.
PROMISED STREET RA1LWAJ KX
TEXSIOXS. The information that the Omaha
Street Railway company will branch
out with extensions to nearby suburbs'
as well as with several additional lines
within the city Is good news for
Omaha.
The Bee has for years been agitating
for suburban electric trolleys radiating
from Omaha in every direction and
giving the people of our neighboring
cities and towns quick and cheap tran
sit facilities to and from this city. Be
cause of the heretofore unsuccessful
efforts to promote Interurban street
railway schemes Omaha is fa'r behind
other titles of its class in the way of
suburban trolley lines, in fact, far be
hind titled of much lesser magnitude
and rank in the central and eastern
states. If the owners of the Omaha
Street Railway company will supply
the capital for us for the development
of this feature of modern communica
tion and traffic they will meet a long
felt want and .deserve to have a profit
able venture.
It goes without saying that any In
crease or business resulting from a
construction of suburban lines as feed
ers of the existing street car service
will force still further the enlarge
ment and Improvement of the present
already overtaxed facilities, which de
spite all that has been done have not
kept pace with the growth of Omaha
and the needs of the community. The
street railway people may be assured
that they will lose nothing by pursuing
a steadily liberal and progressive pol
icy for the widening of Omaha's sphere
of Influence and for Fatlsfying our citi
zens as their patrons.
How can the democratic city coun
cil appropriate $3,00) from the gen
eral fund for the establishment of a
hosplul for contagious diseases in the
face of the opinion of the ci'y attorney
that it has no right to appropriate
any money at all out of the general
fund to keep the asphalt repair plant
in operation? ' If the councllmen can
not answer, the inquirer will doubtless
be referred to some of the paving con
tractors. A carefully prepared statement
bearing the ear-marks that it has
emanated from the federal building
explains that the recent reappointment
of the surveyor of customs at the port
of Omaha Is in recognition of the ex
cellent record made by that officer
during his first term. Of course under
such conditions the mere fact that the
surveyor happens to 'be the brother-in-law
of Senator Millard could not be
expected to militate against him.
The ordinance to fix an age limit
for drivers of automobiles has struck
a stumbling block and is to be re
vised to provide an examination test
to determine who Is, and who Is not,
competent to handle one of these dan
gerous machines. The examination
test may be expected to provide places
for some political examiners with com
pensation attached, while an age limit
would be self-acting, without any
perquisites for any one.
Nebraska club women are persistent
In their demand for a revision of the
Inheritance laws of this state, There
Is no doubt room for Improvement,
the chief obstacle being to secure
agreement upon what changes should
be made. A campaign of education to
Induce every person owning property j
to make a will should go along with
the campaign to perfect the in
heritance laws.
If It Is doing good work, as It surely
Is, the Salvation army will not need
any special defense against the
aspersions of Chancellor Andrews. If
this criticism, however, serves to
make the Salvation army and other
similar Institutions more careful to
confine their assistance to those who
really need It, It will serve one very
good purpose.
Hardly a day goes by without Gov
ernor Mickey pardoning some danger
ous criminal out of the state peniten
tiary. Inmates of that institution are
advised that the governor has scarcely
three weeks to respond to their solici
tations and to get In their work now,
while they can
The suggestion from Toltlo that the
Japanese build their own school
houses shows that Japan has mis
taken the issue. San Francisco pro
fesses to be willing to provide instruc
tion, but wants to do it in its own way.
Cause lor Wonder.
Washington Btar.
Mr. Bryan la doubtless wondering
whether some of the topics the administra
tion Is now discussing afe not quite as
dangerous as government ownership.
Hats Off to the Brave.
Baltimore American.
After the vote on the salary question
never again can the members of the house
of representatives be accused of seeking
nomination to that august body for the
sake of the loaves and fishes.
Free Seeds Invincible.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
There Is to bo another attempt to stop
the distribution of freo seeds by the gov-
crnmerit. Th chanrM are y,t w.
but It looks as if a little thing like failure
Is not likely" to drive its opponents from
the field of conflict.
Gettlnsr Ont of the Nayy.
New Tork Tribune.
An honorable withdrawal from the navy
and marine corps Is now made feasible by
nn executive order. Desertions from the
service by men who find that they have
mistaken their calling will be fewer here
after than they have been heretofore. The
concession Is both wise and considerate.
Slinrpen Yonr Shears,
Providence Journal.
Secretary Shaw announces a ChrlHtmas
present to cutters of coupons on govern
ment bonds. With a plethoric treasury, he
Is prepared to anticipate Interest payments
to the amount of nearly I12.C00,0C0 on Issues
bearing Interest dates between January 1
and May 1 next, which may be had with
out rebate on and after the 15th of this
month.
Only Hnne for States Rlarhts.
New York Evening Post.
Secretary Root was quite right In calling;
upon the states to magnify their function,
a the surest way to retain It. Power
clings to him who power exerts. If there
still res'des in stnt6 governments enough
of the ancient virtue, enough of the con
structive talent, the flexibility able to meet
chanulns conditions with chanrd laws,
and If these powers are put vigorously Into
play for the common weal, then no one
need dread that they will be tnken away.
As to nirliled Parties.
New York World.
Mr. Rryan believes thnt there is "no
probability or prospc-t" of Mr. Roosevelt's
b'ing n rand'dnte for pre-lilent ngaln In
1W. The wlh may le fnthrr to the
thought, but the gTcat commoner has rea
for the filth tbet bums within him.
Fvrn If Mr. Rocsi vi lt lc!red to be nom
inated, he remarks, "he would have great
dlfflcu'ty fn see iiln a nominal 1 n. There
's a division In the republican party, and
that division extends from th" top of the
party to the bottom."
The sasre of Lincoln 'ins h experience
enoutrh ih divided parties to be able to
teroijnlxe one at a glance. Hut can he
prove thnt Mr. Roosevelt's party Is split
further up tie hick and down the middle
thnn Mr. Rrynn's party?
SlICIDAL, THIST VICTORIES.
Tbnarllnir Un Kam the Flame of
Popular Wrath.
Cleveland Leader.
If the able attornfys of the Rtnmtard Oil
tract have discovered tccliuKal crrorj In
the enactment of the rate bill which In
validate the Elklns law and make prosecu
tions under that uct useless, thuy havo
won a self-destructive victory. Such suc
cess In thwarting, for the moment, the
will of the nation and the purpose of con
rrenH Inevitably means mere drastic lexU
iii'.lon. It Insures worse- conditions, from
the point of view of su.'h corporations as
the Standard O I company and lis cat s
paw orsriiijations, than have yet been en
countered. The trusts have no such reserve of power
ns the government drawl upon. Thev
have no such strength with the people
They striko hardest at first. The federil
authorities can count upon Increasing sup
port from the country. It la ImixuMble to
smother the law or wear out the American
republic.
The more successful the efforts of mo
nopolies to defeat Justice and nu.Tlfy 'he
will of the nation the more they fan the
flame of popular anger. They make their
position at once more rebellious and more
irritating to the people of the United
Slates. The most astute lawyers some
lmea overlook future perils of the gravest
ature In their eagerness to score mo
mentary triumphs for their clients.
vot n mh An rm nritnoiG.
Test for a Sermon Supplemented With
Artlon.
Pt. Louis Bepubllc.
Attention has been directed by a Pt. LMili
clergyman to the large number of young
men who never cross the threshold of any
church In this country. Without attempt
ing to verify the exactness of statistics,
placing IS nno.nnn young people of both sex-s
In a class who do not attend church, that
part relating to the young men offers an
Interrstln? pr.ihlern.
If It be true thnt SR per cent of non
attending young men do not belong to the
church and 85 per cent under the age of
:3 years frequent saloons and places of
amusement In preference to the church, the
Influences Impelling their actions present a
fine subject for sociological study.
Tart of this reason for falling away Is
thought to be the failure of country bred
younn; men with churchRoIng Instincts to
continue these predilections after they ar
rive In the city. The fault Is laid at th
door of the average American city. It Is
not difficult to mark the distinctive In
fluences of the country and the city upon
church going.
Interest In the church Is more concen
trated In smaller communities than In the
city. One reason for this condition Is tha
lack of general amusement as compared
with that In places of greater population.
Almost every younir woman In the country
attends church, and naturally she carries
with her the young man who seeks her
company. There Is no reason tor Implying
that the stronger church Influences of rural
America, do not exert themselves In the
young man, hut whether It would be suffi
cient to hold him to the church In the event
of other attractions is problematical.
On the other hand, the sources for be
guiling the time assume multiplicity of
proportion In the city. The young man is
not thrown entirely upon the society of tha
gentler sex for diversion. He may aeck
many avenues of amusement. Irrespective
of tone or morals. In the case of the
country youth the glamour of city life may
be said to exert a powerful cause for defec
tion from established principles. The same
excuses cannot be made for the city bred
young man. What percentage, of falling
off from church attendance he represents
In the 13,000,000 hns not been set forth, but
It Is safe to assume that It Is considerable.
Perhaps the church Itself may be able to
aolve the problem by adopting methods
which shall prove more than ordinarily at
tractive. Recent suggestions by ministerial
bodies evidence the realization that the
church should be more In touch with mod
ern conditions of life. Renewed Interest
In Its teachings and a broader spirit of
altruism will probably attract to It the
large floating population which now directs
Its energies and purposes elsewhere.
PROSPERITY'S TnlDtTE.
Chariot of Prosresa Esacta Toll of
Human Ufe,
The charge has often been made that hu
man lire Is cheaper In the United States
than anywhere else In the world, and In
some respects the charge is well founded.
Deaths by railroad accidents are far more
numerous in proportion to population In
this country than In any other, yet It must
be remembered that we are the moat
migratory and traveling of all peoples.
Homicides and lynching are far more fre
quent In this country than in any other
the former largely due to the semi-barbarous
practice of carrying concealed
weapons, and the latter to a disregard for
law, which Is worse than semi-barbarous.
Yet, after all Is said, it must be con
ceded that the apparent disregard for hu
man life in the United States Is largely
a tribute to progress and to the Industries
that constitute prosperity. Even fatal rail
road accidents, the largest Hem In tha
list, cannot be wholly eliminated, though
they can and ought to be gTeatly re
duced In number. As congress seems dis
posed to assert general supervisory con
trol of all Interstate railroad traffic. It
might be well for It to order an Investi
gation of every fatal accident on an In
terstate railroad with a view to fixing
responsibility and Imposing punishment.
But railroad accidents are only one
item In the list of annual fatalities. There
are fatal accidents In mining, building,
manufacturing and agriculture. They all
claim their victims aa a sort of tribute
to progress, though a very costly one.
Carefully compiled statistics show that In
the five great Industries of railroading,
mining, building, manufacturing and agri
culture no lees thun 530, It persons are
annually killed or Injured in the United
States. This Is at the rute of over one a
minute, and it includes only a few of the
largest Industries. A table compiled by
an accident insurance company makes the
following estimate of fatal accidents during
a period of thirteen years, In twenty-four
industries, viz.:
Bakers snd confectioners, 1.729; bridge
bulldere, 2,SfA: carriage and wagon bul ders,
1,180; chemical and color works, 6.S87; con
tractors, 27.HB7; electric light and power,
3.719: leather, 7.V.0; lumber, 16.575; metal
works. 4,723; milling, 675; mining. 11.S25;
mlHcellaneous, 14.756; oil, 1.6M; ore reduction,
2.674; paper, 4.5u5; pottery. 2.4.2; printing,
I.IK'j; ciurrles end stone cutters, 3.4:;
stamping 2.024; stevedores and steimshlps,
7.7W; textile, 7.5T9; warehouses and stores,
1,85; wood, 15S; ppeclal risks, 1,36s : total.
18O.0S4.
I'EitSOXAI, SOTKS,
Pittsburg Is now suffering from a double
affliction. Its general depravity and an epi
demic of typhoid.
James A. Kratz, who has been prlvato
aecrHury of Attorney General Moody, has
been iippo'i'ted a special assist uni ai i u'.iey
ger.rul. He will have headquarters In
Washington.
MlbS Hililora Adeluide Itloomstine la the
only woman druifglMt In Ohio. She recently
opened a drug store in Cleveland and Is In
personal charge of the prescription de
partment. She is 2.'i years old and was born
in Ynuiicstown.
Information comes from a scientific
source that man's best hours for hoad
work Is from midnight to 4 a. m. le
vo'ees of the lodje and other downtown
attractions usually feel that way If the
spirit Isn't overworked.
John Howard Lnrcombe, M years old, a
veteran employe of the pension office, and
the man who tausht Andrew Carnegie
telegraphy, has Just died at Ilellesvllle,
.Md. When he retired from offlee some
months uoro Mr. Carnegie gave him a pen
sion of 1100 a month for life.
Secretary of War Taft was discussing
the Japanese sl'uation. "We may have a
U'tle trouble with the Japnneso yet," he
ual.1. "Yes," answered his listener, "that
Is Senator BevorMge's opinlcn, too." "Oh.
Is that so?" the bl? get retary said. "Well,
I've chur.ged my mind. There will be no
trouble at all."
Representative Wa'kins of Louisiana
thinks he has about the most Inconsistent
constituent Imaginable. He sent hlin a
full quota of garden seed and received
this letter In reply: "I received the seeds,
but they are no n,uJ. Send me a set of
Congressional Records They amuse the
children and nuke bully lamp llgliters."
Representative Stenerson has presented
to Vice President Fairbanks the Invitation
of Chief Hole-ln-the-Day of the White
Birth Chippewus, In Minnesota, to attend
the celebration next June of tha fifteenth
anniversary of the establishment of the
reservation. There are about 100 Indian
families on the reservation and a large
number of them go under the nama of
Fairbanks and Claim kinship to the Hoosler
statesman.
LiVsLi
OIEAT'3
Made from pure, grape cream of tartar
Makes home baking easy Nothing
can be substituted for it in making,
quickly and perfectly, delicate hot
biscuit, hot-breads, muffins, cake and
pastry. Insures the food against alum
Pare, Hcaltnftil, Reliable
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ARMY GOSSIP IN WASHINGTON.
Current Krenta Gleaned from the
Army and Navr Rearlater,
The plan for establishing brigade posts In
this country have been completed In a pre
liminary way. They contemplate Impor
tant work In the way of construction at
four army poets, representing a total ex
penditure of nearly 13.0X),000. This means
the construction of buildings to provide
for an additional regiment of Infantry at
Fort Riley, at a cost of 1651,960; an addi
tional regiment of infantry at Fort Leav
enworth, at a coat of SSil.KiO; an additional
regiment of field artillery at Fort Bill, at a
cost of 1740,000, and an additional regiment
of cavalry at Fort Oglethorpe, at a coat of
$930,2fiO.
The War department Is favorably in
clined toward the proposed legislation rep
resented by a bill Introduced In the house
by Representative Holllday. granting ft
bounty to enlisted men of the army who
re-enllst. In this particular measure the
amount proposed Is $100 and applies to all
those who re-enllst, the payment to be
made Immediately succeeding their dis
charge. The War department authorities
regard the proposition aa one which would
be calculated to induce re-enllstments and
have a direct and Important effect upon
the original enlstmenta.
No mora pigskin and collar leather leg
gings will be manufactured at the Rock
Island arsenal. The decision has been
made necessary on account of the high
price It has been found necessary to charge
for these leggings, due to the fact that
the work Is hand work entirely and that
each especlat pair is made to measure.
Not all officers take measurements in the
same manner, so that the results obtained
are not entirely satisfactory, and It is be
lieved that the machine made stock sized
leggings which may be purchased from pri
vate firms will satisfactorily answer all
requirements. The manufacture of these
leggings was undertaken by the ordnance
department at a tune when It was Impos
sible to obtain them In the open market,
and now that thla necessity has passed,
their manufacture will be, In future, dis
continued and no more sales will be made
after the stock on hand shall have been
exhausted.
The War department will take steps to
relieve from the injustice of legislation
those army officers of civil war service who
were retired for thirty years' service, and
who might have been retired for disability
or on account of having reached the age
of 62 years. Other officers of civil war
service on the retired list have received
legislative relief In the way of an advanced
grade. There are not many of these offi
cers who come In this class and It Is con
sidered that they are entitled to the ap-
nIUiitlnH a Ik. lavlaUHlf MlllMtV whtnll
win prooauiy uc iuoriu m mv wmj Ap
propriation bill so as to authorize and
direct the president. In cases In which offi
cers of the army having civil war service
have been placed on the retired Jlst, after
thirty years' service. In the operation of
section 1243 of the revised statutes, who
might havo been retired, at the discretion
of the president, at the age of S3 years
or for disability Incurred in the line of
duty, to place auch retired officers on the
retired list for forty years' service as com-
missioned officers, on account of being 62
years of age or for disability Incurred In
the line of duty.
The president will have during the year
1907 an opportunity to appoint seven briga
dier generals. The first will be created by
the retlremnt of Major General Lee, and
the promotion of Brigadier General Hell on
January Z. The other vaconcles In the
crude will occur on March 1, April 11. April
14, April 16, May 25 and October Z. There is
a great rhance here to restore to the army
the security which It has not enjoyed for
a long time. It will probably be too much
to suggest that appointments to the grade
of brigadier general will be confined to
co'onels, but there will go up a heartfelt
wlfh from every nook and cranny of th"!
military establishment that the pres dtit
Busy Men of Affairs Need Home Relaxation
The Angelus Piano
Affords Just the richt mental tonic to overcome the worries
of a strenuous business life.
The act of playing the Angelus piano concentrates one's
attention, takes one's thoughts away from every-day wor
ries, There Is a pogltivo power for good In music particu
larly when you ure ultle to produce that wutlc yourself.
h
fjs
' - ?a as
who plays the Angelus " THE ANGELUS
Piano a litthi every
evening finds that In-
1
stead of taking only a
casual Interest In
mufclc, he has dipped
Into a most fascinating
subject, and he wants
to know more of the
composition and the
composer. As a great
man said, the Angelus
Piano opens a new
world of recreation to
thousands of men with
out any musical education.
A. HOSPE CO., 1513 Dounlas st-
Daily Recitals in Our Angelus Room.
NOTE, If mlxtflres called baking pmrder ara
offered yon at lower prica, remember
they are meetly made from alum, sj
Mtallk acid eleterioas to beallk.
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will do no further violence to the personnel
by abnormal promotion, rampant favoritism i
and wholesalo overslaugh. Of course, thers
are Junior officers who want the distinc
tion and reward, and It Is equally apparent
that some of them have earned something
of that sort. There are seniors, however
who are more deserving of promotion In
the regulnr order and whose failure to be
advanced Is not only a personal deprivation,
but operates as a disaster to the army It
self. The president can do much to
prevent demoralization to the army by
recognizing seniority In appointing the
even brigadier generals during 1907,
FLASHES OF FIN.
"Arabella, where In the world did you get
thla ateak?" asked Mr. Tomklns at the
supper table. "It'e the toughest meat I
ever tackled."
"Why, 1 got It at the furniture store.
Where do you suppose 1 got It?" retorted,
Mrs. Tomkltm. her eyes snapping.
"I didn't know, but I was of the opinion
that you got It at a rubber house." Mil
waukee Sentinel.
Nell -Pee how attentive he Is to her. Of
course thev are husband and wife.
Hell I dare say, but I'll bet he Isn't her
husband or she Isn't his wife Philadelphia,
Record.
Miss Do Style How far do you go on
your vacation?
Miss Gunbusta Thirty postcards up tha
Hudson, and then forty-two postcards
west." Woman's Home Companion,
"Were you counterfeiting rage when you
pushed that tiresome crank out of the
door?"
"Not exactly, though I must confers, I
wah shoving the queer.'-Baltlmors
American.
Impecunious pill There's one thing1 tha
Isn't worrying me.
Friend What's that? '
Bill The proposed tax on Incomes, De
troit Free Press.
"Your honor," pleaded Gopdman Oon
rong, "I haven't always been like this. I
am descended from revolutionary fore
fathers." . . .
"You certainly seem to have reached the
bottom." said his honor. "I'll give you a
chance to rise. You will go up for elxty
days. Call the next case!" Chicago
Tribune.
Fan I wasn't expecting to be called on i
to say anything, you know, and when the
president of the club asked me to make a
tew remarks I Just went all to pieces.
Nan You remember I told you those but
tons on the back of your waist wouldn't
stand the slightest strain, don't you. Chi
cago Tribune.
"Say, paw. what does being handed a
lemon mean?"
"Being handed a lemon, son, la what your
mother gives me when my pay envelope
Is ahort Saturduy night." Milwaukee Sen
tinel. "Do you know I have often wondered
why Mormons do not practice cremation."
"Why should they?"
"Why shouldn't they? Haven't they
wives to burn." Baltimore American.
THE GOOD OLD DAYS.
Eugene Field.
There are no days like the good old days-
The days when you were youthful! ,
When humankind were pure of mind
And speech and deeds were truthful;
Before a love of sordid gold
Became man's ruling pitatilon,
And before each dame ami muid becama
Slaves to the tyrant fuahlon.
V
There are no girls like the good old girls-
Against the world I'd slake 'em;
Aa buxom and smart and clean of heart
As the Lord knew how to make 'em!
They were rich In spirit and common sense,
A piety all-supportln';
They could bake and brew, and had taught
school, too,
And tliey made the likeliest courtla I
There are no boys like the good old boys
When we were boys together! '
When the grass was sweet to the brown
bare feet ,
That dimpled the laughing heather;
Whn the pewee sung to the Hummer dawa
Of the bee In the billowy clover,
Or down by the mill the whip-poor-will
Echoed his night song over. '
There Is no love like the good old lovs-
The love that mother gave to us!
We are old, old men. yet we pine again
For thit precious grace, Uod save us I
So we dream and dream of the good old
times,
Ard our hearts grow tenderer, fonder,
As those dear old dreams bring soothing
t learns
leaven, away off yonder. '