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1 I TI1E ;: OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, FEBBUARY 5, 1901. V Thf, Omaha Daily Kee FOUNDED BV EDWARD HOSEWATER. VICTOR U08EWATER. EDITOR. Entered at Omaha postofflce as second Class mutter. TERMS OP BCBSCRIPTION Ially Be (wltho-it Sunday) one yeir Iai)y Hee and Sunday, one year huii.,y !, ono year Baturduv Hw. one year 1 It.oo 2 M 160 DKLI VKHLU H CARRIER. Pally Hee (Including Sunday), per week.- Ially Hee (without Sunday. per week...iuc Evening Hee (without Sunday), per wiek. oo Kvening Bee twlth hund;iy l-r week....i"c Address onmpaints of Irregularities In at" livery to City Circulating Department. OFFICES, t Omaha The Bee Building. ' South Omaha City Hall Building;. Council Bluffs-lO Fearl Street. Chicago lt40 fnlty Building. New York Lion Home Mfe Ins. Building. Washington Jinl Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Comunlcatlons relating to news and edi torial matter should 1 addressed! Oman Hee, Editorial Department. REMITTANCES. Jtemlt by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Be Publishing Company. Only 2-cent stamps received In piyment or mall accounta. Personal check, except on Omaha or eastern ex. hang's, nil "cceptea. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. 8TATEMENT OF" CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraak. XXWgtits County, ss: Charles C. Itoaewater, general manager of The Bee PubllNhlng company, being duly worn, says that the actual number of full and complete copies of The Daily. Morning. Kvenlng and Sunday Bee printed du"ln l"e month or January, isu 1 30,00 was as ioiiows: !7 31,970 IS 31.990 31,780 ;0 30,300 21...; 31,900 22 33,030 2 J 31,640 24 31,780 25 31,700 26 31,830 27 30,600 2 31,830 U9 31.683 30.- .... . .".'.31,300 Jl 31,630 J 38,680 1 81,970 4 31,960 6 31,860 6 30,600 7 31,950 32.300 9 33,960 10 33,040 11 31,870 J 2 33,060 11 30,400 14 31,730 IS 31,930 1 33,180 Total 983,480 less unsold anJ returned copies.. 9,134 Net total 873,348 Dally average' 81,301 CliARLKtt C. ROSE WATER, General Manager. Subscribed in my presence and 'sworn to before me this list day of January, 1S0T. (Seal) ROBliRl' HCNIER, Notary Public. WHEN OIT OF TOWS, ' Babscrlbers leaving the city tem porarily should " have The Bee Mailed to them. Address will be changed oftea as requested. President Dryden of the Prudential has turned his senatorial aspirations down as a bad risk. . The author ot "Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey?" is In a Michigan jail. Justice may .be tardy, but it usually arrives. Senator Depew says the newspapers have lately neglected him. He ought to be congratulating himself instead of complaining. The claim Is now made that there Is gold in the dirt along the Panama canal. If so, It was pat there by the government. - Grand Juries In several states are till doing the Salome stunt, to the extent of demanding the scalp of John D., the Baptist. If, as Mayor "Jim" contends, they are not real prize fights, then the promoters have been getting money under false pretenses. Members of congress still cling to the notion that free seeds distributed by them sprout about the first Tuesday after the first Monday In November. Governor Folk of Missouri is recov ring from a threatened attack of pneumonia. Strange how these politi cians suffer so much from lung trou bles. Another objection to a war with Japan at this time is that the country Is too busy with the Thaw trial to have its attention diverted by minor matters. Chicago is calling In scientist to tudy the ravages of the lead-pipe cinch bug. it would seem to be case for the plumber rather than the dentist. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat has an exhaustive article on "The Art, of Keeping Cool." Practice of the art of keeping warm will keep most peo ple too busy to read it. "we are making ourselves the lajgTMng stock of coming generations, Bays Chancellor Day. So far as the chancellor is concerned, we are beat ing the coming generation to the laugh. Aathors still. insist upon represent ing the hero of fiction as the son of poor but honest parents, although, In these days, it would be better fiction to represent, him as the son. of rich but honest parents. The police board situation In Omaha seems to be rapidly approach ing a crisis.' ' The present board came as a kaleidoscopic change wrought by the hand of His Accldency, Governor Savage, and a kaleidoscopic exit would not be surprising. .. One of the members of a committee to draft a 'new primary election law tor Nebraska la said to be Incubating a scheme by which one vote in one dis trict will offset two votes In another district. The very statement of the proposition should be all-convincing. 8ome members of the New Jersey legislature persist In voting for Presi dent Woodrow Wilson of Princeton, for United States senator In spite of the fact that Harper's Weekly has al ready elected him president of the United States tor the term beginning March 4. l0. TUB UQVuH RILLS, The Nebraska legislature is being Inundated with bills to impose still more severe restriction " upon" the liquor traffic than are embodied In the present Slocurub law. The" county op tion bill is of course the "piece de re sistance," being drawn to make the countx the unit of local option instead of the, city or town. If the county op tion became a law each county would be called upon to vote Itself wet or dry eveiy two years. If It voted 'dry" no liquor selling could be li censed In any part ot the county, but if it voted "wet" each Incorporated city and town in the county would again vote wet or dry at every mu nicipal election. The object is to en able the people outside Of towns which would otherwise favor license to close those towns up and to give the anti-saloonlsts "two cracks at the liquor men Instead of one." Two other proposed bills relate to the transportation of liquor in pack ages, requiring each package to be plainly labeled on the outside "Intox icating Liquors," ' and making . the place of delivery ' and collection the place of sale. The purpose of these measures is to abolish what is known as the "Jug trade' in no-license com munities. They might have some merit could they be made effective, but inasmuch as the state law can be directed only at shipments made be tween points wholly within Nebraska and cannot affect shipments into this state from out3lde points, which con stitute interstate traffic, they could operate only to discriminate against home "Jug houses" and in favor of Jug houses" in other states. Still another bill undertakes to make every person who signs a peti tion for an applicant for liquor license co-responsible with the sureties on the liquor dealer's bond. Of course, peo ple would hesitate to endorse liquor li cense applications if in so doing they incurred a financial responsibility and signatures would soon be worth some thing on the market. The scheme would have about as much reason for It as one to make every person signing a nomination petition a bondsman for the candidate after election to office. Another liquor bill undertakes to prohibit any brewer or distiller from having any interest In any place where his products are Bold at retail or from owning or leasing any real estate used for saloon purposes. It also sets a limit on the number of licenses to be granted in any city at not to exceed one to every 1,000 population, aa shown by the last census. The pro claimed purpose of this bill la to di vorce the brewers and 'distillers from the retail business and to restrict the license to more responsible men. The Injury it would do in depriving the brewers and distillers of the use of their property seems to cuOno figure, nor does It give any assurance that in dependent saloon keepers would be any more responsible than those backed by the wholesalers. ' ' Aa to limiting the number of saloon licenses Issuable In any city, that power now rests In the discretion ot the excise board and that this discre tion has not been seriously abused la shown by the fact that in Omaha today only' 248 licenses have been issued for the current year, whereas fifteen years ago, when the population was not half so large, the number of licenses was 252. The same is true vln . . South Omaha, where, notwithstanding the noticeable population growth, the number of licenses now Issued Is eighty-one less . than In - any year since 1898. , When all these questions of liquor traffic regulations are sifted down, the present Slocumb law, which has done satisfactory service without change tor . more than twenty-Aye years and which has given the perfection of lo cal option to every community in. Ne braska, seems to furnish the best solu tion. Not only haa it stood the test of time, but on the whole It has produced better conditions of liquor traffic than those in prohibition states surround ing us, or in the states that have either laxer or more stringent regulation. JAPASISE MIKISTKR S UEAMNh The Japanese foreign minister's no table statement before the Japanese House of Representatives, "that In the event of an unfavorable decision of the American courts on the San Franclsoo school question the anti-Japanese movement in California would be con sidered to represent the opinion of'the whole United States, which would re quire diplomatic adjustment," la being widely misconceived and erroneously criticised In this country, y It does not necessarily Imply, and could hardly have been Intended to imply, that edu cated Japanese would regard a decision of our supreme court, holding unre stricted admission to schools not a right guaranteed by treaty- to Japanese children, as proof that American senti ment is in sympathy with California anti-Japanese feeling. ' Such a decision would be simply the court's judgment that under our con stitution control of the public schools is exclusively a state matter 'and ot within the jurisdiction of the national government The legal view would be determined. Irrespective ot-opinion of the propriety and right ot the state's restrictive school law. Japanese statesmen must' be pre sumed to be perfectly aware of this distinction. Moreover, the most con spicuous fact ot the whole situation It the practically universal disapproval ia the United States fit the anti-Japanese movement In San Francisco. - That movement Is purely and narrowly local. Elsewhere throughout the country Japanese and their chflcktm are treated cordially, and there. Is absolutely no complaint And the attitude of Presl- dent Roosevelt unqualifiedly represents the opinion of the whole country. The minister's point, then. Is no more than assurance to the Japanese legislature that the situation produced by such a construction of our constitu tion would be properly dealt with diplomatically. Popular-sentiment in Japan is not so well Informed as la that of Its educated classes regarding our form of government and an adverse Judicial ruling naturally might be misconstrued In that quarter, but there Is no reason to believe that Its states men, and least of all the foreign minister, are not fully aware of the facts and working In the friendliest spirit to meet them. yo CHASCE FOR CURRKHCT CHASOK Hardly a ghost ot a chance remains at this session for the elastic currency scheme about which so much was heard Immediately preceding and following the convening of congress. The whole matter has fallen out of general public attention, even if otherwlso the state of business in congress were such aa to leave opportunity for full discussion. The only condition on which a meas ure for so material a change in cur rency and banking could have been made was that It be pushed decisively to the front In public discussion as a practical issue. This depended abso lutely upon the president pressing the question with vigor as a paramount need. When in his message he rele gated the whole business to a subordi nate place and dismissed It with a mere approval of the general principle of currency elasticity, the case was really disposed of, even though the fact was not discerned In banking circles, from which the agitation had originated and been mainly promoted. It Is, under all the circumstances, just as well that this feature of cur rency reform should go over for more thorough preliminary discussion and formulation. Bankers and financial experts should begl in time to reach some sort of agreement among them selves if they wish to Influence the business or the general public. They were altogether too late when they did nothing before last fall. ' ' ' . ' GOVERNOR HVQHES IS COMMAND Governor Hughes' prompt and per emptory revocation of an order issued by the adjutant general, with the ifn authorized attesting words, "By order of the governor," has resulted In sig nally certifying to public, attention the fact that New York at last has a 'gov ernor who governs. The Incident would not otherwise be so Important, although it involves what seemed to be an attempt to let off by resignation and without court-martial a National Guard officer, charged with grafting, and the thing necessary to that result is an order of the governor. Issued by the adjutant general, without the gov ernor in laqt makjng . it .or. knowing anything about It. .. n.. r.. - It has been the custom in the execu tive department at Albany for a great many years to treat as a mere form the attachment ot the certificate, "by com mand of the governor," even In a mul titude of matters of very great impor tance, so that a vast amount of public business was legally "commanded," though he was not even aware of It, save as a bystander and after the fact Once for all,' and on the very first occasion, Governor Hughes wipes out the practice and makes his responsi bility as chief executive real and ex plicit And it is a wholesome thing to have It verily known that executive power Is under no circumstances to be sublet or promiscuously rubber stamped. Some of the railroad organs throughout the state are woefully dis tressed because a large number of Ne braska solons accepted an ' Invitation to partake of Omaha hospitality and not only attended the feast, but went back to the state capital expressing themselves delighted with their cor dial treatment Had Omaha sat back and done nothing to promote sociabil ity with the legislature, these same carping critics would have been In dulging derisive comments about sel fishness and excluslveness where they are now Impugning generous motives. Whatever Omaha might do there would be some kickers and knockers. The World-Herald suggests that the railroad bosses are counting on the republican state committee to nullify all efforts to pass any laws the rail roads do not want. This Is decidedly rich in view of the open and undla-4 gulsed alliance during the late state campalgt between Chairman Allen of the democratic committee and the po litical bunco steerers at railroad head quarters. The - railroads never put out a document more to their liking than the letter sent by Chairman Al len to democratic newspapers urging them to take the railroad end of ter minal tax shirking. . R all road lobbyists are again getting In their work against terminal taxa tion in a few of the country newspa pers. The last time they ' con ducted a campaign of misrepresenta tion through the public prints they did not disguise the tact that they were paying for the space at regular advertising rates. The presumption is that the papers lending their col umns to the railroad publicity agents this time are being paid as well. If not better, than they were before. And now the World-Herald la lend' lng aid and comfort to the new pro hibition crusade masked behind the county option bill. The duplicity. o( that sheet, however, has a precedent J In the "Throw-the-Jonah-overboard J performance or traitor Hitchcock at the white heat moment ct the prchibi- tion campaign of 1890. This Is the way Hitchcock .repays the brewers and liquor dealers for helping him to beat John L. Kennedy for congress. That Nebraska. school Janitor who hag been giving Ice cream prizes to the pupils who keep the floor cf their room tne cleanest for' the rest-of the year is not making the moat of his opportunities. He. ought to be organ izing syndicates under the laws of New Jersey. The president is carrying the war into Africa and, Incidentally, carrying the African Into the war, by deciding to appoint a negro as collector of the port at Cincinnati without the aid or consent of Senator Foraker. Gradually the purpose of the anti Japanese agitation In California Is being revealed. The entire school board of Ean Francisco is going to Washington on a junket to tell , Mr. Roosevelt all about it. Competition a Lost Art. Washington fetar. The western railways refuse to present even the formality of competition in sub mitting bids for the transportation of troops en route to the . Philippines. . Hot Air Agrees with Him. Chicago News. While various eloquent' gentlemen are rising In their places in the senate to de nounce President Roosevelt the latter con tinues to eat his meals regularly and with a good appetite. Plain and Pointed. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. ' A reduction for January of 17,000,000 in the public debt Is one of the solid Indica tions of continued prosperity for the be ginning of the year. Omaha's Reputation for Art. Hartford (Conn.) Times. Pictures by the old 1 masters have been suppressed in Omaha as indecent.' The only kind of art that Omaha appreciates Is photographs of the stock yards. ta He the Same Chapf Chicago Inter Oeean. Can this be the same little Jap whom wo were applauding so warmly only a short time back when he was doing things to our ever faithful friend, the Russian empire? ' till a Pertinent Observation. San Francisco. Chronicle. The great fuss being made at this late day about public land frauds Indicates that the old adage about locking the stable door after the horse has been stolen has not lost its pertinency. Why the Shoe Pinches. Kansas City Star. With reference to' Senator Rayner's charge that President Roosevelt Is a "usurper," it may -be. suggested that It. s time that some one booties-the "Special in terests" did a little "usurping." ProgreaslTe.iBoaa.aeta.-' Minneapolis Journal. ' The Incident la closed with a letter from Admiral Evans commending Admiral Davis, a letter from Secretary Metcalf commending Evans for commending 'pa vts, ' and a letter from the president comt.iendlrig Metcalf for commending Evans for tommending Davis. ,. ;,, .1,1,;,!, , -, i ; . Flaared iDowsi Klne, . , !, ' ' Washington Herald. '.A statistician hnguped It. out that the Increase in congressional salaries will cost every man, .woman sndhild in .the United States ltt cents annually,, what the states men fear Is that they will be called upon to explain, to every .one,, of thf ra why they need the increase. . , , , A Graceful , Surrender. t . Philadelphia Record.. Having made a 60 per cent Increase In their own pay, the United States senators, when confronted with a proposition to In crease the salary of letter carriers for free delivery offices IS per cent, had not the gall to defeat It The bill provides for an Increase of (100 per annum for six years until the maximum salary reaches $1,200. The Increase Is well . deserved and well earned. There Is hardly a-doubt the ac tion ot the senate will ( be ratified by the bouse. . . IMPROVING LAND LAWS. Meaenree Needed to Baa Wholesale Land Grabbing. Philadelphia Press. The administration appears likely to force this congress or the nex,t to pass the legis lation necessary to deal with the vast em plrs of over 1,300.000 square miles which the United States today 'owns in the mounr tainous region between the Paclno coast and the ,100th parallel. ' This area la wholly unfitted (or pre-emp tion and settlement under the homestead act. This law presupposes arable land, on which a man can settle, taking up a farm of 180 acres, building a house, living in It, raising his crops and supporting his family. The area of publo land now left tor sale Is Instead nearly alt either land which can only be - cultivated through. Irrigation or pasturage, suitable only for herds and flocks on a large ' scale, depending upon water rights, or forest and mineral areas. These require ' new legislation. Congress has never given It. . As long as corporations could, by fraudu lent and collusive action secure this land at a homestead price per acre they were opposed to any .change In the laws. President Roosevelt has wisely taken the only course which will force corporate In fluence to urge new legislation. He has given stringent Instructions to the secretary of the Interior that there shall be granted no final title to land taken up under homestead or other'' entries unless an officer of the department has examined the conditions and found affirmative proof of a bona fide pre-emption Secretary Hitchcock has held up much of the coal and, oil lands in the Indian Ter ritory. Senator Nelson has Introduced I bill which proposes radically to change ex lstlng law by providing with reference to nearly 100,000,000 acres, coal, oil, mineral and forest, that they shall be granted only on lease under royalties, so that their control shall remain In the hands of the govern ment. Whether this bill passes now or not It begins a definite policy for legis lation. In addition, by the liberal use of forestry rights, 150,000,000 acres have been taken up as forest reservations. These two steps, together with the action taken under the Irrigation act, render it certain that there will be an end of the wholesale fraudulent appropriation of coal oil. mineral, pasture and forest lands under the homestead act In behalf of corporations, and that the larger wealth cf the area a'.ill unsold will paae to private ownership under S new system of laws which will regard the special conditions which now exist In pub lic lands. . In the public land act.- when passed, the great bulk of that for sale con stated of prairie .land, on which any man could make a living.- Tbs bulk today requires capital' for develi pment, and re quires a'so the aetchful care of the govern ment thst tie rtseurcea of .the, future shall not be seised by 'greed Of capital In the present. ' DEMAND FOn PRIM ART LAW. Columbus Tribune: Right or wrong, the republican legislature was elected on a pledge to enact a state wide primary law and that pledge should be redeemed. ' Tekamah Herald: A state Ma primary law Is demanded by the people. It was promised In the platform. Nothing will satisfy the people but a fair trial like has been given ki other states where It has been adopted. The people have a right to say who they want for their public ser ventj Instead of them being selected by the political bosses and convention fixers. Bloomfleld Monitor: The Nebraska legis lature ' should begin work on the "state wide" primary law. That Is not only one of the things needed In Nebraska to put the railroad politicians out of business, but it is one thing promised by the republi can state platform, and to which nearly every republican member of the legislature Is pledged. Let's have it. We want- it not only now, but we want It mighty bad. ' Aurora Republican: Should the legisla ture pass a primary bill giving anything less than a state-wide primary It will not have fulfilled the wishes of the people in this Important matter of legislation. The people want to vote on nominations for county office well enough, but they want also to participate in the selection of can didates for congress and state offices. ' The caU is for a state-wide primary. Bradshaw Republican.: A state-wide pri mary law Is not what the people are ask ing for. A clear-cut county and precinct primary Is the thing wanted. There will be no trouble In regard to the class of delegates that will be chosen to state and district conventions If the voters In each county can have their say by a direct county primary. Our legislators should be careful and not get sidetracked by some of the howl set up by the metropolitan press. York Times: How far legislature will be driven In the direction of primary elections remains to be seen. It is not very probable, however, that the politicians will turn the entire business of the party over to the newspapers without a good deal of pro testing. The republican platform favors primary elections and the legislature will be quite likely to sit up and take notice of what the convention declared, but It la not very likely that the members of the legis lature will completely tie their own hands and turn the whole business of making officers over to the press. It will be In teresting to see how they will get out of It. Sterling Sun: As tho Sun predicted, cor porations and politicians Interested In the control ot state nominations are fighting the passage of a primary . election law harder than they are any other bill before the legislature. The passage of such a law puts the politicians who have always con trolled affairs practically out of business. It will be a condition where one man's vote counts just as much as another and if he does not choose to exercise his powers that is his business. The ordinary man. has practically nothing to say on state nomi nations, because the nominations are al ways practically made by the leaders of both parties under the convention system. Newman Grove Reporter: The Nebraska legislator, especially If he Is a republican, hasn't got a bit of time to be arguing whether the primary law Is advisable or not, for two good and sufficient reasons. One Is because it Is past the experimental stage; it works, works In half a, dozen dif ferent, states, works in the , two most pro gressive nations on earth. Then if said legislator had anything to say against the primary law there was plenty of time to have said it before "the' election Instead of letting the party platform pledge him to that measure with hls. tacit consent. . In addition to that -nearly' every republican signed art explicit pledge, prepared by The Bee, to support the law. Many . subscribed to'! before tbjey oould obUIn a nomination. Therefore the legislator who violates those pledges stands .before th6. people of this state branded as man of Punlo faith. PERSONAL NOTES. 3. B. Martin of Tacoma. owns a mine- In Alaska, the profits of which he has sworn to devote to the cause of total abstinence even though these profits should reach $500, 000 a year. ' ' Dr. Mary Walker gallantly comes to the rescUe of afflicted Chicago with a simple remedy for colds, grip, malaria and other native ailments. . "Peel and cut saw onions and put them In the sleeping rooms," she says. The odor will do the rest. A writer in the New York Times claims to possess a letter written by Daniel Web ster In which the great expounder declined to take a law case on a contingent fee. for that would make me a mere party to a lawsuit" Mr. Webster is dead. At a dinner In New York Congressman Bede said: "They say that President Roose velt has changed the national bird from an eagle to a stork. The president, they say. argues that the eagle merely screams, whereas the stork delivers thf goods." Charles B. Hughes, governor of New York; Edward C. Stokes, governor of New Jersey, and James H- Hlggins, governor of Rhode Island, are graduates of Brown university. All three will attend the dinner of the Brown club In New York' on Febru ary U. The editor of a weekly paper published In Barber county, Kansas, grants no favors to the railroads now that the pass has been abolished. He haa taken out the railroad time table and Instead prints this Informa tion: "Trains are about due when you see the smoke." The Chicago Historical society will cele brate on February 7 the fiftieth anniver sary of the Incorporation of the organisa tion. One of the speakers will be Ezra B. MoCagg, sole survivor of the group ot early Chicago citizens who founded the society in April, lt. "Private" John Allen of Mississippi, for years a leading humorist In the house or representatives, says he Is out of politics for good and Is content to practice law and do a little farming at his home In Tupelo. He says he has quit telling stories, fearing: that his friends might come to think he Is too frivolous. Scarcely had It been announced that Mrs. Jessamy Bret Harte Steele, the . youngest daughter of the late author and poet. Bret Harte, was a public charge In the poor house at Portland, Maine, than a number of her old friends came to her assistance and have temporarily relieved her wants. She is at work on a play that It Is said will be produced next fall. War's Hose Harvest. Internatloual Journal of Ethics. In the so-called "glorious" victories at Caeaar a million men perished on the field of battle. Napoleon, in the short snace of nine years, was authorized to devote to "the glory of France" 2,100,000 ot her sons. In the ten years following the attack on Fort Sumter the world destroyed In war 1.400,000 Uvea and $6.000.000.0uo worth of prop erty. Two-thirds of the combined budgets of the various states of Europe are devoted to the maintenance of armed forces and to the service of a debt practically the whole of which was Incurred by wars. War ex penses in Europe absorb one-half of all the wealth created by productive labor. In the comparatively Insignificant war of England with the lioers England lost 22.460 men and spent fl,400.0"0,(iui. Three hundred and flty thousand men were withdrawn by It fAjm productive industry to engage In the destruction of war. Military expenditures In the United States during the lust eight years have absorbed $l,6OO,W0.OA. I i, 2. -' Absolutely Pure A Cream of Tartar Powder free from alum or phos phatlo acid Hakes Homo Baiting Easy ARMY GOSSIP IH WASHINGTON. Current Events Gleaned from the Army and Navy Rexlater. The retirement of Major General J. F. Wade In April will result In A number of changes in Important commands. Major General Leonard Wood, now In commuixl of the Philippines division, will be ordered to command the Atlantic division, succeed ing General Wade, If It shall appear thai Lieutenant General MacArthur desires to I remain In command of the Pacific division, I which is understood to be the case. The ' command of the Philippines division will devolve upon Major General J. F. Weaton, now in command of the Department of Luzon. The adjutant general of Montana recently asked the War department whether drug to the amount of (124, purchased for the medical department of the Second Infantry of the militia of that state, can be paid for from the allotment to the state, under R. S. 1661. The secretary of war has edeclded: "There Is no way known to the War department by which this account can be settled from the ap propriation under that statute. The law provides for two ways for securing mili tary supplies from the government, vis., by Issue with proper debit against tho state's allotment under section 1661, and by I purchase from the department from stato ' funds;, but there is no provision of law permitting the department to settle bills for supplies purchased by the state au thorities from dealers. The appropriation of $700,000 for participation ot the militia in army ; camps Is not available." The eight army ambulances of the gal loping variety, of which there has been some test, have been delivered to the gov ernment from the manufacturers and will be sent to various army posts where they may be considered as permanently added to the medical equipment In the field as an Important facility In handling of sick and wounded In the field. A galloping ambu lance will be sent to tach of the following named posts: Forts Myer, Ethan Allen, Oglethorpe, Riley, Leavenworth, Meade, Robinson and Clark. It Is possible that It will be arranged to send a galloping ambu lance to Cuba that It may be tested under practical' conditions m the character of country afforded In the Island. It is proposed to do away with the rubber boot and arctic overshoe now supplied to the army by the quartermaster's depart ment. Both these articles are carried on the liBt of supplies and It Is desired to substitute for both of them a combination of winter boot and shoe. This new type' laces up the front and has a bellows tongue. Two patterns, which may be of advantage In the direction described, have been sent to a number of military posts In the north west that the men may wear them during the winter season under the observation of officers, who will make reports and recom- i mendatlons . to the quartermaster general In the spring, pointing out In what particu lar the new pattern Is superior or Inferior, Pis the care may' be, to the arctic overshoe and the rubber boot now furnished the army. A general order was Issued st the War department defining the period of service In the civil war to entitle an officer or en listed man to wear what Is known as the civil war campaign badge. In the same order the Indian campaigns are designated to determine the question of service which entitles an officer or soldier to the so-called Indian campaign badge. This Is the result of a memorandum from the chief of staff and settles many persistent questions. It was deemed advisable to give the exact dates between which civil war service Will entitle officers snd enlisted men to the civil war campaign badge Instead of using the general expression "during the war of the rebellion" as was done In designating civil war service which entitles to the servlce-ln-war chevron. The dates of those officially recognized are April 16, 1K61, and April I, 1866. ,' The War department haa .been more or less seriously engaged on the project of changing the form of the discharge of en listed men of the army so as to prevent the successful practice of . forgery by Greater Food Value Whole wheat is of greater food value than any other cereal. It contains all of the fourteen elements nec essary for the sustenance of tho human body. The most important of these (the nitrogenous principles and salts) lie near the surlace of the grsin and are only partly utilized in the manufacture of the prtsent- oay wncai uuui, MB LiUU.1 WHEAT FLAKE CELERY 1?S1 presents Whole Wheat in a Is flavored with celery after a a OC - slowly Da Me a ior iaaivui mub vuwva .tarches easy of di Rest ion PalBtMIO nnxniione - r. . . . . k. cts ss ens rs a . W. -Sk TtL DOUGLAS 127 FOR GENUINE SIHIEIIOAPJ OAL CAN NOW SUPPLY IT AFTER BEINO OUT FOR 3 MON.THS VICTOR WHiTE COAL CO., 1605 FARNAM ST. holders of such documents. Some week ago the War department was advlned bv the manager of a western railroad thHt ex-soldiers who had been discharged were presenting as recommendations the offlcla'. certificates of excellence, when It appeared very plainly that this degree Of merit has been falsely applied by a crude mutilation ef the entry on the paper. The matter Is pot considered of sufficient importance to go to much trouble In order to prevent the forgery, especially as anyone who Is par ticularly Interested in a holder of the dis charge can apply to the War department and get. accurate Information from the records. At the same time, If tny change Is to be made one precautionary measure suggested Is to have engraved the three terms. "Good," "Very aooe?.""Excellnt" on the discharge certificate, and to have the officer whose duty It la to indicate the character of the soldier mark out the two terms which It Is not desired to use. In this way it might be possible to render more difficult than at present the falsi fication of a character given on a dis charge. A new gun sling has been adopted for the army and a sample of tho device was this week approved by the chlpf of staff and the secretary of war. It Is along the lines of the gun sling which was recommended by the experts and which wss used by some of the troops In an experimental way at the national match at Sea Girt last year. It will be issued to the army as soon as re ceived from the contractors. PASSING PLEASANTRIES. "Plckleham Is certainly kind to his folks." "Why, he told me he hadn't been home for a year." "That's It" Cleveland Plain Dealer. "The defendant In a murder trial goes through a' terrible ordeal, doeBn't he?" "I suppose so," said the ex-Juror, wearily, "but he has one advantage over us. He's presumed to be innocent until proved guilty." Philadelphia Ledger. Meekley Matrimony may seem very nice, but it certainly makes trying times for some people. Sharpley For almost everybody. Thone who are not trying to get in are trying to get out. Philadelphia Press. So that busybody, Mrs. Gadfly, made herself so much at home at her first call as to go upstairs to your library.-- -What' did you do?' "why, we called her down."-rBaltlmore American. Constituent Senator, I think It's all right to raise the pay of members of congress to $7,600 a year, because It costs a good deal to live In Washington, but what's the nense of raising the president's salary to $1(10,000?" Eminent Senator Well, there Is a kind of feeling that the man who tries to fill Mr. Roosevelt's shoes ought to have at least that amount as a sort ot encouragement, you know. Chicago Tribune. STILL DOING BUSINESS. Baltimore Sun. Men don't believe In a devil now, as their fathers used to do; They've forced the door of the broadest creed to let his majesty through. There isn't a print of his cloven foot or a fiery dart from his bow To be found In earth or air today, for the world has voted so. But who la It mixing the fata? draught that palsies heart and brain, And loads the bier of each passing year with ten hundred thousand slain? Who blights the bloom of the land today with the fiery breath of hell If the devil Isn't and never was? Won't somebody rise and tell? . Who dogs the steps of the tolling saint and digs the pit for his feet? Who sows the tares In the field of time wherever God sows His wheat? The devil is voted not to be and, of course. the thing Is true, But who Is doing the kind of work the devil alone should do? We are told he does not go around like a roaring lion now. But whom shall we hold responsible for the everlasting row To be heard In home. In church and state, to the earth's remotest bound. If the devil by a unanimous vote Is no where to be found? Won't somebody step to the front forthwith and make his bow and show How the frauds and the crimes of a single day spring up? We want to know. The devil was fairly voted out H.d, of . course, the devil's gone, : But simple people would like to jinow who , carries his business on? most acceptable form. It being cooked, flaked and a arm A ass S Vtafc -if--.. - - . ..ck hooka aMk. " . m 0
