TIIE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1D07.
The Omaha Daily Her
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VICTOR RQ6BWATER, EDITOR.
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
State of Nebraska, Douglaa county, as:
Charlea C. Rosewater general manager
f Tie Bea Publishing Company, being
duly sworn, says that the actual number
of full and complete copies of The Dally,
Morning. Evening and Sunday Bee printed
during the month of June, 1W7, was af
fillowa:
1 3M30 17 36,480
I 5,800 It 86.490
I ,630 . It 36,480
4 84,690 20. 36,310
1 36,410 21.., 36.360
36,610 13 36,610
1 86,630 It 38.730
t 36,800 ' 14 36,300
86,600 21 86,680
16 86,660 24 36,650
11 36,930 27 86,670
11 36,860 21 86,470
It 36,640 21 36,660
14 36,930 to.....'... 35,660
It 37,170
16 66,800 Total.. .1,094,320
Lat unsold and returned cop lea.. 10,386
Net total
Dally arerage
CM 4.RLJ8
LOS 3,831
. . 36,187
. ROSEWATER,
Oeaeral Manager.
Subscribed In my presence and sworn to
before me this 1st day of' July, 1907.
(Seal) M. B. JILNGATE,
Notary Public
WHEN out r TOWH.
Iikirrllxn leavlna; the- city tent
porartly akeold have The Be
mailed to thesa. Address will be
changed as oftea as requeated.
Texas has authorized Attorney Gen
eral Llghtfoot to stamp out the trusts.
"The Tobacco trust Is filled with
graft," says a New York paper. Soma
of. Its cigars taste like it.
We will take more stock la this talk
bout war with Japan when the Jin
goes begin hiring substitutes.
"The increase in the price of sugar
Is not explained," says a market note.
Oh, yes It ,1s. Cherries are ripe.
With the price of hay advanced,
breakfast food manufacturers may
have to use some cereals . in their
products.
Other patriotic citizens of Omaha
should see to it that that Schiller mon
ument in Rlvervlew park does not get
lonesome.
The National Educational associa
tion balks at the simplified spelling
reform and announces that it is
through with thru.
Judge Parker has been discussing
the campaign issues of 1904. The
Judge will be surprised when he learns
that the campaign of 1904 is over.
Lincoln Is agitating the organisation
of a "boosters' " club. Omaha has a
boosters' club that includes every
man, woman and child of its popula
tion. The Tobacco ' trust profits have
amounted to but 100 per cent in three
years. The Tobacco trust does not
pay any better than Nebraska farm
land.
"The Friendly SUrs" Is the title of
a new book. Frohman, Hammersteln
and all the other managers will not
hesitate to pronounce the work pure
fiction. '
Dy wearing a white suit to church
President Roosevelt lays himself open
to the charge of having stolen Mark
Twain's clothes, as well as Colonel
Bryan's.
Congressman Hitchcock, now vUlt
ing In Paris, "rolled up to the Cham
ber of Deputies in an automobile." He
must be practicing for his re-entry at
Washington.
The arrival of the delegation of
Omaha Elks at Philadelphia la chron
icled. It they do not wake up the
town, Its reputation for aleeplness
cannot be shaken.
Admiral Baron Yamamoto, now
touring In this country, bears a etrik
lug' personal resemblance to Senator
Lodge. Otherwise, he Is said tec be a
very fine-looking person.
John Hollls Bankhead has been
chosen to succeed John Tyler Morgan
rn the United States senate. There is
a lot of difference between succeeding
a man and taking bis plae.
presidential candidates are now
standing In line explaining that they
do not drink cocktalla or mint juleps
at home. The home-made kinds
never t&ate just right, anyway.
It is to bo noted that Omaha appears
in good big letters on the map of the
Harrlman fystsm accompanying the
report of the Interstate Commerce
commission. The Harrlman system is
the biggest in the country and Omaha
is a big part of II
HAvtnns bask1 aud ixvestmexts.
Financial experts in Wall street con
fess utter inability to understand the
rtmarkable increase in the amount of
deposits In the savings banks of New
York and other cities of the country,
at a time when there Is an unusual de
mand for the investment of capital at
comparatively high rates. Particular
attention has been called to this con
dition by the report of one savings
bank In New York City which has over
$100,000,000 on deposit, distributed
among 60,000 depositors, with no ac
count larger than $3,000, The savings
banks of New York state have total
deposits of $1,464,950,000, an In
crease of over $60,000,000 In one year
and considerably greater than the total
In either England or France. In this
connection a recent statement of the
Treasury department shows the amount
of savings depoclts In the United States
as follows:
WO. tt.3K.719.9r4!lBr $2.91 K, 775.329
Wl 2.516,.r29lDfR t,0Kl.O77.3."7
1902 J,WMO4.46:i90 1,293,644,601
1904 t,81S.83,106
Large and significant as these
figures are, they are emphasized by
comparisons. The latest available
figures show sovings deposits, repre
senting the surplus of the wage earn
ers and those not directly engaged In
big financial affairs, in different coun
tries to be:
United States t3,2SP,M4,VH
Germany 2,OB9,S90,400
France , g90,39S,872
England .' 996,30S,64
The interest paid on savings de
posits is not large, rarely exceeding
2 per cent In the east, while bond in
vestments and other securities, offer
ing from 4 to 7 per cent, are going
begging. New York City recently of
fered $29,000,000 in 4 per cent bonds
and secured bids for but $2,225,000.
The Atchison offered $26,000,000 and
but $9,000,000 in subscriptions were
taken, while the Union Pacific suc
ceeded in placing but $4,600,000 of a
$78,000,000 offer.
The explanation of the situation is
not difficult. Heretofore the bond Is
sues of railway companies and munic
ipal bodies have been in large de
nominations and have been looked
upon as the preferred property of
syndicates and pools tf.at dealt only
In millions. The average eavlngs banks
deposit Is limited to hundreds and the
way is not easy for the money saver,
on a small scale, to Invest his hoard
ings In bonds or other securities. Di
rect Investment is not made easy
enough for persons of small means.
The comptroller of the city of New
York declared the other day that he
could sell the entire $29,000,000 of
the city's latest bond issue in a week
If cut up into $250 or $500 bonds
and sold over the city treasurer's
counter instead of being negotiated in
lump sums running into the millions.
8ome provision making savings in
vestments freer would doubtless re
lease considerable money to actual In
vestment In good securities that Is
now, In small items, tied up in savings
banks.
COMISO INTO THEIR OWS
One strikingly significant feature of
the report of the federal bureau of
statistics on the import and export
trade of the United States for the fis
cal year ending June 30, 1907, is the
remarkable record of business at
southern and western ocean and gulf
ports as compared with former years.
The report shows, in brief, that while
83 per cent of the nation's Imports in
1897 came by the Atlantic ports, but
80 per cent came in the fiscal year just
closed and the exports from those
ports declined from 69 to 57 per cent
of the total. More significant is the
statement that while Imports for the
whole country have Increased 90 per
cent in ten years, the increase at At
lantic ports has been 79 per cent, as
compared with 820 on the Gulf, 111
on the Pacific coast, 118 on the lake
ports and 337 on the Mexican border.
In exports the Iobs to Atlantic ports
has been still greater. The entire in
crease In exports has been 80 per cent
The Increase at Atlantic ports has been
46 per cent, at Oulf ports 164, on the
Pacific 66, at Mexican ports 193 and
at Canadian ports 211.
These figures are surprising, In view
of the manipulation of railroad tariffs
that has been In progress for many
years. The desire for the "long haul"
has heretofore resulted in traffic agree
ments that made it imperative for the
shippers of the middle west to send
their products by rail to Atlantic ports
regardless of the fact that Oulf and
Pacific ports were much nearer and
more accessible. The bulk of the na
tion's exports, grain, cattle, flour and
farm products originate In the great
belt between the Alleghenies and the
Rockies and its natural outlet is at
the Oulf or Pacific coast porta. So
long as thU condition obtains the gain
In commerce at Oulf and Pacific coast
ports must continue. The west and
the south are coming Into their own
"the millionaires' club."
Dispatches announcing that Augua
tus Ootavius Bacon, Just re-elected
United States senator from Georgia,
has lost all his wealth, estimated at
about $75,000, by the failure of a
bank at his home town of Macon,
served to emphasise the fact that the
United Statea senate Is no longer an
exclusively "millionaires' club," It it
ever merited that distinction. Many
changes have been made In the person4
nel of the senste in the last few years
and in nearly every instance the
change has made way tor a man not
rated very highly la Bradstreet's. The
"millionaire club" designation prob
ably originated by the election of men
Ilk Tabor of Colorado and Clark of
Montana, whose chief qualifications
were dollar marks. The senate of to
day Is not composed of rich men In the
comparative sense.'
Senator Allison of Iowa, an acknowl
edged leader of the senate, Is rated at
about $75,000, and his colleague,
Senator Dolllver, is worth less than
half that amount. Cullom and Hopkins
of Illinois are "comfortably fixed."
Curtis and Long of Kansas have to
depend upon law practice and private
enterprises to piece out their Incomes.
Hemtnenway and Beverldge of Indiana
have little beyond their salaries. North
and South Dakota, Nebraska, Oregon,
Utah, Ohio, New Hampshire, Montana,
Michigan and Idaho are represented
In the senate by men whose incomes
are less than those of prosperous at
torneys in the cities In which they live.
Brandegee of Connecticut, Aldrlch of
Rhode Island, Keene of New Jersey,
DuPont of Delaware, Elklns of West
Virginia, Guggenheim of Colorado,
Piatt and Depew of New York, Perkins
and Flint of California, Newlands of
Nevada, Proctor of Vermont and Steph
enson of Wisconsin are all very wealthy
men, but the record shows that they
fall far short of being the dominant
factors In the United States senate.
The Senator Moneybags of fiction and
fancy cuts a smaller figure in the
work of the "greatest deliberative
body on earth" today than for some
time back. Of the ninety United States
senators more than twenty-five are de
pendent upon their salaries and an
other twenty-five have personal for
tunes averaging less than $50,000. The
"millionaires' club" may become ob
solete unless some new plutocrats pre
empt scats as vacated.
MAKIKO PVM8HMEHT FIT TBS CRIME
In reducing the sentence of a con
victed murderer from hanging to life
Imprisonment without finding any er
ror in the transcript and merely on
the ground that the evidence did not
seem to warrant such a severe penalty,
our Nebraska supreme court has set
a peculiar precedent.
Irrespective of tne facts in this par
ticular case, and conceding even the
merits of the prisoner's appeal for
leniency, there is a legal point in
volved upon which all previous prac
tice of our courts has rested. The
criminal code of Nebraska defines
murder in the first degree and pro
vides that any person convicted
thereof "shall suffer death or shall be
imprisoned In the penitentiary during
life, In the discretion of the Jury." It
also defines murder in the second de
gree and provides that any person
convicted thereof "shall be Imprisoned
in the penitentiary not less than ten
years or during life, In the discretion
of tho court"
The law-makers unquestionably In
tended to vest the discretionary power
as to the penalty for murder In the
second degree In the court and for
murder In the first degree in the Jury.
As a consequence, whenever murder
cases have gone to the Jury, the Jury
has been Instructed it it brings a ver
dict for murder in the first degree to
bring In an additional finding as to
whether the penalty shall be death or
life imprisonment
No one would question the right of
a court of appeal to order a new trial,
but (or a court of appeal to change
the sentence once fixed by the Jury is
something unheard of in this state.
If the court can for the reason given
reduce the penalty from death to life
imprisonment, can it not with equal
reason Increase the penalty from life
Imprisonment to death when In Its
Judgment the evidence warrants se
verer punishment?
Clearly nothing of this kind was In
tended when the criminal code of this
state was enacted. The law says that
the punishment should be fixed in the
discretion of the Jury and not of the
court. It will take a whole lot of
legal hair-splitting and citations to
make the people believe that the law
makers did not mean what they said.
If the power vested In the Jury to fix
the punishment tor murder In the first
degree is subject to reversal by appeal,
then It is an idle provision of law and
it is useless for Juries to attempt to
say what the penalty shall be.
Congressman Hitchcock writes from
Paris that be discovered several strik
ing resemblances In his observation
of Premier Clemenceau, particularly
his physical resemblance to the late
Edward Rosewater, "He Is some
what larger than Mr. Rosewater was,"
he writ3s, "but In the shape of his
head, in the method of his speech and
action, as well aa in his gestures, he
strongly resembles him. Though
younger, his fringe of gray hair and
his drooping gray- mustache, as well
as his bald head, help along the re
semblance." Another Interesting re
semblance which he discovers, but
which he does not so definitely Iden
tity, Is this: "Clemenceau is prime
minister and secretary of the Interior.
Educated originally as a physician and
possessing good literary ability, bis
life has been spent largely in politics."
Presumably It is modesty alone pre
vents Mr. Hitchcock from adding that
be, himself, was educated originally as
a lawyer, but has spent his life largely
in politics.
The assumption by Chairman Allx-
of the democratic state committee that
be is charged with the duty of steer
ing the democratic primary nomina
tions does not seem to sit well with
democrats who have been reading
Bryan's declarations that democracy
means the rule of the people rather
than of the bosses. But how Is the
fusion bunco game to be kept up with
out some steering on the part of the
machine managers? The real object
of the democratic committee meeting
is to provide ways and means to put
the populist and democratic labels
both on the same ticket.
Justice Wright of the District of
Columbia bench admitted to ball a
man charged with murder, with tho
remark, "I see no more reason why a
man charged with murder in the first
degree should not be admitted to ball
than a man who is accused of bur
glary." The Judge should consult an
oculist.
William Thaw's will provided that
a certain tract of coal land belonging
to his estate should not be sold "un
less absolutely necessary." Mrs.
Thaw has sold the land for $2,000,000,
evidently believing that a large in
vestment in lawyers is absolutely
necessary.
Too much fuss la being made about
the work of alleged Japanese spies
who are photographing and sketching
the army posts and fortifications of
this country. Let them alone. The
more information they get on those
points the less anxious they will be for
ar.
The late William F. Bechel, who
was once acting mayor of Omaha, had
the reputation of being the most skill
ful parliamentarian and the best pre
siding officer who ever held the gavel
over a political or public meeting in
Omaha. That Is surely a unique
prestige for any man.
The federal bureau of corporations
has investigations in hand into ten
gigantic industrial combines. It Is to
.be feared that a lot of people with
plenty of money to spend are not go
ing to enjoy their summer vacations
this year as they have been accus
tomed to enjoy them.
Colonel Bryan says the democrats
will urge three Issues in the next cam
paign. They will probably be the
railroads, the trusts and the tariff, all
coneolldited into one W. J. Bryan.
Close to the Ball'aeye.
Detroit Free Press.
Condensed Into a few words, Mr. Bryan's
definition of a democrat Is a man who voted
for Bryan In 1896 and 1900 and feels like do
ing It a few mora times.
Keep Tour Armor la Trim.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Carnegie says there la no danger of war.
We may be sure that he doesn't make the
statement for the purpose of keeping any
body from purchasing armor plate.
An Optimist for Business.
Kansas City Journal.
Colonel Bryan speaks the truth when he
says he Is not a pessimist. Colonel Bryan
is an optimist on a pessimlstlo basis. That
Is to say, he hopes to climb up by persuad
ing the people they are trodden down.
Will II la tor y Repeat Itself
Pittsburg: Dispatch.
When President Roosevelt suggests the
Vice presldental nomination for the present
governor of New York he provokes the
recollection of the way a previous governor
of New York was boosted Into that nomina
tion against his will.
Darlnsr Tuk of Inventor.
New York Tribune.
Inventors balk at no obstacles. One of
these agents of progress has devised a plan
for Inducing women on leaving street cars
to step off forwards Instead of backward.
If this Invention works the discovery of the
secret of perpetual motion will seem less
hopeless.
Fair Trial for Two-Cent Rates.
Springfield Republican.
If there Is to be a fight against the 2-
cent fare laws of the western states, It
will apparently have to go oa without the
co-operation of the Burlington system.
That important railroad is not only observ
ing the law within each of the 2-cent
states, but Is preparing to put its Inter
state passenger ratea through that section
on a Z-cent basis which It Is not obliged
to do. This la fur the best policy for the
roads to pursue give the reduced rates
a fair trial and seek a modification of the
law. only when they have been demon
strated by experience to be unfair. No
legislature, or people would fall to heed an
appeal resting upon such solid ground.
PERSONAL. AND OTHERWISE.
Evidently the president of the Standard
OH compariy considered Ida Tarbell's hot
stuff as "light summer reardtng."
Chicago haa a Judge named Fake, but
there are aeveral newspaper circulators In
the town who regard him aa the real thing.
, New York City la slowly but surely
catching up with the procession. Another
line of horse cars Is booked for the Junk
pile.
The price of thread haa gone up twenty
points. The country can stand much in the
squeesJng line, but stringing Is about the
limit.
Mark well the prophecy there won't be
any war with Japan. Richard Pearson
Hobson Is on a peace footing and his salary
oa congressman goes right along.
The campaign In Ohio must be warmer
than the thermometers Indicate. An up-to-date
preacher urges male members of the
congregation to provide themselves with
asbestos shoes.
It la a mistake to suppose that the most
amualng aummer attractions of New York
are grouped at Coney Island. Right in the
heart of Manhattan may be seen a sanitary
Inspector riding In an auto In search of bud
smells.
A Chicago man who dropped a bunch of
money trying to corner pork twenty-four
years ago has paid his debts, dollar for
dollar, and Is now hailed as an honest man.
Time polished the ragged edges of a squeeae
that failed.
King Chulalonghorn of Stem Is doing Eu-
rope In royal style.
At one late sitting In
Paris he got outside
of a quantity of
liquid refreshments that makes Charley
Fairbanks' ten cocktalla look like a Mis
souri chaser.
Veterbury. Conn., Is wound up and go
ing. With the mercury at 90 In the shade
one day last week, a hailstorm dropped on
the town, leaving enough ice to pack the
boxes, besides freezing hundreds of ex
posed poultry.
The husband of a female "big stick,''
pulled Into a New York court, begged for
sixty days In the work house In preference
to the family bosom. The unfortunate
needed peace and rest salve fur wounds
caused by dully thanking. Ills wishes were
granlvil.
WOMAN FAIR TO GET CHANCE
Kingdom of Quirera Will Pay to Her
Homage Due.
GALLANT -XING MAKES RULING
Ak-ar-nen XIII Decides that Mere
Man Shall Not Longer Monop
olise Spotlight, hat Give
Ills Dam a Show.
Man, mere man. Is not to be the whole
thing In the Ak-Sar-Ben festivities this
year. Hitherto he has arrogated to him
self the whole show and the duty of the
fair se was to stand In open-mouthed
astonishment and applaud and wave hand
kerchiefs as he floated by dressed In his
splendiferous fantastic garments.
Man enjoyed his role with the eonoe.lt
that Is said to be a part of his makeup. Ha
looked forward with feverish anticipation
to the glorious nights of enchantment,
when he should appear In all his glory on
those floating stages before the admir
ing eyes of the fair ladles. For twelve
years this went on. And the ladles fayre
applauded and smiled and told their worser
halves how glorious and noble and brave
they looked. And the men swelled tip
with pride and Immediately set their brains
to work to find something still more en
chanting for the following year.
Now all this Is to be changed and
woman, lovely woman is to step upon the
stage.
That merry monarch. King Ak-Sar-Ben
XIII, who at present sits upon the throne
and administers the affairs of state with
a wise hand, has added an Innovation,
which will make him beloved by the people
of the seven kingdoms and by the knights
and ladles of the thirty-three provinces
and the fourteen rivers. Good King Ak-Sar-Ben
XIII has declared that the ladles
fayre of the seven kingdoms and the thirty
three provinces and the fourteen rivers
shall have an equal right this year with
the men In preparing beautiful things to
bo hauled along the broad streets of the
capltol during the annual carnival.
Chance for the Women Folks.
Thla Is a decidedly new departure," said
H. J. Penfold, lord high chamberlain of the
court and secretary of the Board of Gover
nors of Ak-Sar-Ben. "Hitherto we have
had no women In our parades. Where It
was necessary to have a feminine figure
a man was always dressed up for the part.
M'e decided the time had come when the
ladles should be given on opportunity to
prepare beautiful things for the eyes of the
crowds, and we have made a very at
tractive offer of prizes.
There la to be a parade for women.
Any organization or society In the city or
state consisting of women only and having
a membership of six or more Is eligible to
this parade. The Board of Governors will
furnish the wagons and horses and will
place the wagons anywhere In the city
where the women may wish to prepare
their floats. Tho designs and Ideas and ex
ecution are to be left entirely In the hands
of the women who wish to participate and
no rules are to be made to hamper or re
strict them In any way. Those expecting
to participate should make requisition for
wagons not later than September 15.
'The women's parade has been set for
Thursday afternoon, October 8. The fol
lowing prizes will be given for the best
floats in the parade: First prize. $260;
seoond, $160; third, $100; fourth, $76; fifth,
$50; sixth, $25.
Schedule of Festivities.
'The Ak-Sar-Ben festivities this year will
extend from September 26 to October 5,
during which time the capital city of
Omaha will be the scene of the greatest
brilliancy and entertainment and excite
ment. Such a display of wealth and
beauty has not been approached even In
the brilliant reigns of the twelve kings
who have preceded the present monarch In
swaying the scepter over the seven king
doms and the thirty-three provinces.
Lord High. Chamberlain Penfold Is busy
every day with a large corps of stenogra
phers and other workers In the office of the
state department of the kingdom and Is
In dally consultation with the board of
governors and privy counselors of his
majesty.
Several new features are to be added
thts year In addition to the women's
parade. One of these is the automobile
comic and artistlo flower parade, which Is
to occur on the evening of Tuesday, Octo
ber 1. Prizes will be offered as follows:
First prize, $300; second, $126; third, $76;
fourth, $60.
Electric Float Night.
Wednesday evening, October 2, (Hear ye,
hear ye) will occui the great and only
original electrlo float parade, made famous
throughout the length and breadth of the
land by twelve successive wise and mighty
kings. The parade to be given by the
present monarch will eclipse those given by
his predecessors If the Ingenuity and artis
tlo skill of the artificers and workmen
brought together In the capital city can
accomplish It. These workmen have been
busy since February 1 In designing and
executing the twenty floats which will pass
before the eyes of the people In their en
chanting beauty on that memorable even
ing. As for the show features of the week
the Board of Governors Is going to pro
vide for those of the king's subjects who
delight In the prodigious, the amusing, the
phenomenal, the freakish, an array of
fifteen shows. Including the smallest white
elephant In the world. This puts Barnum
himself "In the shade." He had a white
elephant, but It was not the smallest In
the world.
Arrangements have been made for In
serting large advertisements In the 640
newspapers of the state for four ooneecu
tlve weeks preceding the great annual
event.
C0UPLAND A GOOD FARMER
Antelope Connty ml an Who Wants
to Bo Resjeat of tho
University.
Congressman Boyd of the Third Ne
braska was in Omaha Monday morning
looking after some personal business.
Along with him was George Coupland of
Antelope county, who has been projected
as a candidate for university regent. Mr.
Coupland was court reporter In his dis
trict from 1S4 to 1SS4. when he retired to
engage In farming and stock raising. His
farm Is said to be tho best In Antelope
county and he has been very prominent In
the councils of the fine stock growers of
the state.
Representative C. E. Noyea of Cass
county was In Omaha Monday morning
during a period of rest between cultiva
tion days on his cornfield. Since, returning
to his farm from Lincoln Mr. Noyea says
he haa experienced such difficulty In secur
ing help that he has nearly concluded the
help problem Is of as great Importance aa
the 6-rent fare question.
Mr. Noyes' trip to Omnha la of a busi
ness character and to prove that farming
pays be spent some of his time while here
looking up an automobile bargain.
Street tar Files Track.
CHICAGO. July 15 Seven people were
Injured toils y, one of them fatally, when a
street car Jumped the track at Ninety
seventh street and struck a telephone pole.
All the passengers were thrown to the
floor and bruised and cut by flying glass.
James M'-Cormlck unstained a fracture of
the left arm ami Internal Injuries. Ills re
covery U considered Impossible;
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ARMY GOSSIP IN WASHItfGTO.Y.
Current Gventa Gleaned from the
Army nnd Navy Register.
There Is an Influx of suggestions for
carrying on war' and the Navy department
and War department are bcglntng to re
ceive a new batch of advisory and ad
monitory communications, practically all
of them without value and many of them
of crank origin. Borne of these communi
cations have been prompted unquestionably
by the newspaper stories bf the prospect
of war between the United States and
Japan, but It Is observable that compara
tively few of them acknowledge any such
Inspiration. The majority of tho writers
were evidently prompted this year by tho
patriotic stimulation of the Fourth of July,
which, for some reason, appears to have
appealed to that class of the Ingenious
which is bent on making war as deadly as
possible. The trend of the suggestions la
more toward rapid fire mechanism, such
as repeating guns and automatlo devices.
Considerable Interest attaches to a de
cision which has been rendered by tho
comptroller overruling the auditor for the
War department In the claim of Captain
Edward H. Schulx, corps of engineers, on
duty at Sioux City, la. The auditor dis
allowed the 10 per cent Increase of pay
for foreign service from September 6 to
October 19, 1905, and from March 9 to 11,
1906. Captain Schulz was on duty pertain
ing to fortification work at Guantanamo
bay, Cuba, and was ordered to Washing
ton for consultation and the purchase
of machinery In the United States, where
he was during the period named In 1906.
He was at Miami, Fla., on duty connected
with fortifications during the few days
In March of 1906, and on the completion
of eoch period returned directly to station
in Cuba and there resumed his duties.' The
comptroller holds that the officer's business
In the United States was of a purely
temporary character and while here he re
mained in charge of the work at Guan
tanamo bay. Under such circumstances. It
was decided that Captain Schula wan
"serving" beyond the limits of the states
comprising the states of the union and was
entitled to the 10 per cent additional pay
for foreign service during the periods
named.
Attention of the war department has
been directed to an Incident In Lyon county,
Kansas, where a minor, who had been ar
rested by the sheriff as a deserter, was
taken from his custody on a writ of habeas
corpus by the probate Judge of the county.
It is quite evident that Vila action on the
part of the court Is not legal, for the en
listment of a minor Is voidable and not
void and It Is well settled that, while the
United States court may release a man
from his enlistment at the suit of his
parents, if It be proved at the time of his
enlistment he was, a minor, it will not do
so If the military authorities of the United
States have assumed Jurisdiction and pro
pose punishing the soldier, either for his
fraudulent enlistment or for his desertion,
or both. In this case, the soldier, having
been apprehended As a deserter by a civil
officer authorised by the statute of the
United Btates to apprehend deserters from
the army, such deserter la regarded as in
the custody of the United States, and,
under the decisions of the supreme court
of the United States, the state courts have
no Jurisdiction to interfere with the custody
of the deserter.
It will be Impossible to commission the
graduates of the military academy until
action Is taken on the result of the ex
amination of the lieutenants of Infantry
and cavalfy who desired to be appointed
first lieutenants in the artillery
arm. After these appointments are
made It will be possible to appoint as
aeoond lieutenants the eight army candi
dates who were examined soma months
ago at Fort Iavenworth and who have
been awaiting their commissions. All of
them will find awaiting them vacancies in
the grade of first lieutenant and will be
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A case of fraudulent enlistment has en
gaged the attention of the War department
officials this week. A recruit was recently
tried for fraudulent enliotment. It being al
leged that the man had previously applied
for enlistment under another name. The
sentence was dishonorable dlscharKf, for
feiture of all pay nnd allowances and six
months' confinement, which sentence was
disapproved by tho reviewing nuthorlty on
the ground thnt the previous application to
enlist, even under another nnme, does not
come within the definition of fraudulent
enlistment. The War department finds that
the contrary Is tho case and thnt the re
cruit fraudulently enlisted because at the
time of enlistment he denied the prior ap
plication which he had made undor another
name.
It will be the first of Alienist, nt least, bo
fore the eurirenn general of the army can
finally act on tho papers In the examina
tions held In this country have been
marked, but nothing can be done toward
giving relative place to the candidates until
the papers are received from the boards
convened In the Philippines. There are
about twenty-five vacancies to he filled.
M1HTHFI I. REMARKS.
"Are you going to Burnne this summerT"
"Yes.' answered Mr. Comerox. "Mother
and the girls say that rich people are get. ,
ting so numerous In America that we've'
got to go to the old world to get appre
ciated." Washington Star.
First Summer Girl Who Is that clean
shaven, handsome hoy? '
Second Summer Girl Oh, he's an actor.
First Summer G1rl No; I mean the other
one.
Second Summer Girl Oh, he hasn't any
money either. Harper's Weekly.
Kicker Why did the Smiths divorce? I
thought they were' perfectly happy.
Bocker Yes, but the ukase Is If a con
cern la too. prosperous It must have a re
ceiver. New York Sun.
All at once there came a yell from the
bleachers, followed by a fuslllale of pop
bottles, whose dry throats emitted a hoarse
sound aa they hurtled past the umpire's
ears.
"Bmpty honors!" he muttered, his lip
curling with scorn. Chicago Tribune.
"Them lawyers do gay awful funny things
to you."
"What kind of things?"
"The one what came to see me yesterday
about that there accident said he wanted
a paregnrtcal unswer to his questions."
Philadelphia Press.
Boldly the robbers boarded the train and
demanded that it halt, but the engineer
went ahead at full speed and at the first
station the robbers were captured.
"Mighty serious business," said the Of
ficers to the trainmen. "Didn't you know
It was aalnst the law to carry passengers
without tickets?" Philadelphia Ledger.
TO ALL NEWSPAPKH REPORTERS
New York World.
Ho, all reporters everywhere
Who shove your active Fabers
Into the news of rich and poor
'Mongst foreigners or neighbors,
Catch on to John lVs happy thought
And watch his steps intently,
And for each step he takes ahead.
You slip In two, see V gently.
Don't crowd the old chap off the track,
Hut mind his admonitions
To lay for opportunity
In favorable positions.
And from your fourteen per and apace
You'll grow a billion dollars
To scatter money everywhere
For educating scholars.
Of course we know how much you scorn
All money that Is tainted.
But don't be cross; perhaps It ain't
As black aa It Is pulnted.
But even if It is, dear boys.
Just mark It "Paint," and danger
Will be avoided easily
By every money changer.
At present you reporters are
Our greatest educators.
Although we don't consider you
Quite as our alma maters;
But say, dear boys. Just think a bit
What most Illustrious scholars
You'd hand the country If you had
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