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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-31
Chief Luebkert Resigns.

Otto Luebkert, assistant forester, and
chief of the division of records of the
bureau Of forestry of the U. s. Department
of Agriculture, has resigned to assume the
resident managership Of the American
Audit Company of New York. Mr.. Lueb-
kert has been connected with the forestry
work of the department for thirteen years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-31

pride wI-ch prevail we earnestly partici-
pate; more earnestly perhaps than others
because we SO well know that the President
from the beginning was governed solely
by the desire to benefit the suffering Jews.
and that every step taken had that object
in view.
In delivering the petition into your
hands. we avail ourselves Of the opportunt-
ty to make this record Of our profoundly
grateful appreciation. I am. sir" etc.
Secretary Hays Reply.
Secretary Hay today replied to Mr.. Levi
as follows: -
II have received at the hands of Simon
Wolf your letter of the 5th Of October. He
has also delivered to me the bound copy of
the Kishineff petition. z
TT gives me pleasure to accept the
charge of this important and significant
document and to assign. it place in the
archives of the Department of State.
Although this copy OF your petition did
not reach the high destination for which 1t
was intended, its words have attained n
worldwide publicity, and have found a
lodgment in many thousands of minds.
This petition will be always memorable,
not only for what it contains, but also ror
the number and weights of the signatures
attached to it, embracing some of the most
eminent names of our generation of neil
renowned for Intelligence, philanthropy anu
public spirit. In future, when the students
Of history come to peruse this document
they will wonder how. the petitioners
moved to profound indignation by intoler-
able wrongs perpetrated on the innocent
and helpless, could have expressed them
selves in language so earnest and eloquent
and yet SO dignified, SO moderate and so
decorous. 1t is a valuable addition to pub
lie literature. and 1t will be sacredly cher
ished among the treasures Of this depart
ment."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-31
Steamship Arrivals.

At Hamburg. Auguste Victoria from New
York.
At Queenstown. Umbria, from New York
At Plymouth, Grosser Kurfurst, from
New York.
ampton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-31
The Columbia to Go in Commission

Orders have been given to place the
cruiser Columbia in commission at the
New York navy yard for service with the
Atlantic training squadron. The Columbia
Is one of the two triple-screw cruisers in
the navy, but for many months past she
has been performing the prosaic service Of
q receiving ship at New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-31

ernor Dole In his position without inter-
ruptien. There has not been any attempt
since to undermine Governor Dole. The
few political enemies he has Will not be
sble even IL they should try, to prevent
the confirmation of his nomination. as the
vast majority of the Hawaiian people Will
be pleased with the action of the President.
The Case Of an Army Officer.
Assistant Secretary Oliver of the War
Department spent some time this morning
talking with the President about the case
of Capt George e. French OF the 10th
Infantry, who was tried by court-martiai
for unbecoming conduct at Sea Girt. N. J..
during the shooting matches there. and
sentenced to dismissal. Gen. Oliver had
with him a large bundle of papers pertain
ing to the case.
Representative Champ Clark of Missouri
paid-his respects to the President. Mr..
Clark was invited to make a number OF
speeches for Tammany In New York. but
as he had lecture engagements to prevent
he did not go to New York.
Former Representative Tucker Of VIZ.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-31
Personal Mention.

DIR. Edwin NJ. Hasbrouck has returned,
having fully recovered from his long ILL.,
ness.
Mr.. Alexander Long of the bureau of
engraving and printing left today for Phila-
delphia, Pa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-31
Death Of Payraaster Rhodes.

The Navy Department h informed that
Paymaster Stewart Rhpdes Of the navy
died in the Naval Hospital yesterday after
an operation for appeadidatis. performed on
the 18th instant. Paymaster Rhodes was
a native Of Ohio and entered the pay corps
of the navy in January, 1900 He had been
stationed at the naval station, Honolulu.
since April, 1908,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-31
Capt. French's sentence COMMITTED.

Capt. French's Sentence COMMITTED
The President today comnuted the sem
tence of Capt. George e. French. 10th In
fantry, from dismissal to reduction to the
foot of the list Of captains and to remain
there for five years. Capt. French loses
352 numbers In rank by this action. He
was charged with intoxication on duty at
Sea Girt, N. J., and sentenced to dismissal
by the court which tried him. On account
of his creditable services heretofore the
President mitigated the tenfence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-31

To Buy Land at Guantanamo.
Plans have been submitted by the general
board of the navy for the naval dock yard
and military base at Guantanamo, Cuba.
An additional $4,000 will be required for
the purchase Of land.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-31
INDIAN MOUND FOUND.
Workmen Discover Eighteen Skeletons
Near lockwood, Md.

Special Dispatch to The Evening Star
CUMBERLAND, Md. October 31.-Work-
men yesterday unearthed eighteen Indian
skeletons near lockwood. on the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad, above here.
A large number Of tomahawks, bear
claws and flint arrow heads, besides con-
siderable pottery, were found. Hundreds
have been attracted to the place of the
find.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-31
THE EVENING STAR.

New York Once: Tribune Building.
Chicago Office: Tribune Building.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-20
FEAR AMERlcAN RETALIATION

The clause in the agricultural appro-
prlation bill passed by the last congress,
authorizing the exclusion of importa-
tions of adulterated foods and liquids,
is said to have caused alarm to Ger
man exporters of those articles, who
fear that the United States at last In
tends to retaliate for the meat and
other food determinations of Germany.
It is not denied that aduterated foods
and liquors, much of which is not al
lowed to be sold in Germany, are ex-
ported to this country and these CON
stitute a considerable item of German
trade. A Berlin dispatch says that the
feeling officially is that the Germans
ought to feel no surprise If the United
States does retaliate and that the tariff
and exclusion controversies can only
be settled by a new commercial treaty.
While this legislation applies alike to
all countries, its enactment was largely
due to the policy of Germany in exclud-
ing American meats and dried fruits on
the pretext that they contained preserv-
atIves dangerous to health. This she
did with the full knowledge, of course,
that her exporters of foods and liquors
were shipping adulterated goods to this
country. This state of affairs was toll
Grated by our government until patience
ceased to be virtue and now that we
have the law 1t will undoubtedly be
enforced At all events that is the
declared determination of the Washing
ton officials. AS to a commercial treaty
for settling tariff and exclusion contro-
versies, doubtless it is desirable, but 1t
is very questionable whether satisfac-
tory treaty could be negotiated in view of
the attitude of the German agrarians,
who have been able to secure most of
their demands. Perhaps It will be well
to apply a little retaliation as an OBJ
ject lesson preparatory to seriously
talking of a new commercial treaty.
1t might have an awakening and en-
tightening effect.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-20

An explanation is due why the Board
of Education should impose an extra
bill of expense on our taxpayers at this
time by hiring special counsel to assist
the boards regular attorney I'm the de-
fense of the Mcdonald claim. That the
case has from the first been badly
handled will doubtless be conceded but
there is no good reason why the school
board, which is part of the city govern
ment, should not call on the city at
torney to conduct its side Of this litiga-
ton instead of letting it out to an out
side attorney who will bring in a big
fee bill. We know that I'm the past
the disinclination of the board to rely
on the city law department for legal
advice rested on a pretense that City
Attorney Connell could not be depended
on by the board, but no such pretended
excuse can be urged as to the incom-
ing city attorney, Mr.. Wright, who
must have the confidence at least of the
majority of the board, who gave him
their support in the election. II Mr..
Wright is the lawyer he is cracked up
to be he can assist the boards attorney
not only in this instance, but whenever
additional legal advice is necessary. If
the school board had money to burn, It
might make a distribution among ia
vored attorneys who stand in, but when
to do so it has TO rob the funds needed
for actual work of instruction, the tax
payers and school patrons should call
halt.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-20
THE NEED OF PUBLICITY.
PitiabIe Collapse of Promising
Trust Experiment.
New York World

New York World. ..
The purchase of the remains vt the
American Bicycle company by Colonel Al
bert A. Pope not only marks the end OF
one promising trust experiment, but fur
nishes a striking illustration OF a funda-
mental weakness of the trust theory. The
Bicycle trust started, as Colonel Pope re-
minds US, with capital of $4O,C0OoO9,
forty-two of the best plants in the coun.
try, the ownership Of all the best patents.
the control of more than 20 per cent VI the
business. and magnificent prospects," Its
collapse has been pitiable. It has never paid
a dividend; It's securities. stocks and bonds
alike, are undigested and ipdigestible, and
now its property has gone back into pri-
vate hands
The cause of its fall has been a too i'm
plicit faith in one of the primary trust
theories-"economies of combination" One
of the chief OF these economies was in pub
llcity. Competing establishments advertise
to induce people to buy of them rather than
of their rivals; a trust has no rivals
therefore It does not need to advertise.
Admirable logic. II its premises were only
true. Unfortunately they are not The
Bicycle trust discovered too late that the
main use Of advertising was not to induce
people to buy from one establishment rather
than from another, but to induce them to
buy at all. In the absence of constant
and convincing reminders people forgot
that they had any use for bicycles. Even
a trust cannot do business in the dark, as
the astute managers OF the biscuit and
tobacco combinations, and even Of the CO.
lossal steel corporation, understand to their
profit
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-20
NEW TREATT PORTS- REFUSED.

The refusal Of the Chinese govern
ment to accede to the request of the
United States for new treaty ports, on
the plea that it is impossible TO do so
because of Russian opposition, is an in
stance Of the commanding influence of
Russia in that quarter that is not re-
assuring 1t is a pretty conclusive in
dication not only that that power exerts
greater influence with the Chi
nese government than any other power,
but that its policy is to restrict COM
mercial conditions and privileges to
what they are at present, at least until
1t shall be convenient to Russian In
terests to have them enlarged.
The dispatch that reports China's re-
fusal also notes the extraordinary eff
forts that are being made by the
Russians, through pressure upon the
Chinese amounting to coercion, to gel
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-20
CLEANING TIME.
Chicago News.

Gird yourselves with gingham aprons, o ye
women OF the land,
Pin your skirts TO clear your shoe tops,
take the scrubbing brush in hand,
Boil up alkaline intusions' turn the whole
house upside down.
Slop the floor with soap and water, heed
less of your husbands frown.
Yank up carpets, rugs and mating, jerk
the pictures from the walls,
Have your pals of suds where we can
stumble DER them in the halls.
Pile the stairs until they are worse than
any Alpine sleeps to climb,
Have the regular old picnic incident to
cleaning time.
Fill the bathtub with umbrellas books and
shoes and brio a-brac
Heap upon the grand plano kitchen dishes
Set the dinner on the mantel, though
there's little time to eat;
See that everyone who enters wipes with
care his muddy feet.
Keep the windows all wide open as you ply
the mop and broom.
Have hot and steamy Vapor permeatlng
swab and scrub and splash and spatter In
your fight with winter CRIME,
Revel In the moist discomfort incident to
cleaning time.
Have the men with whitewash brushes
spread the tinted kalsOmine,
Take all necessary bedding out and air II
Have the furniture revarnished TIL the odor
makes one faint
See that all the woodwork glistens with
coat of shining paint.
Don't have anything to sit on, sleep on, eat
on; also froWn
When you heal, a meek suggestion as to
some hotel downtown"
Let the masculine complainer know it's
nothing short OF crime
Not to make ones life burden in the glad
Rpring-cleaning time.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-20
Personal NOTES.

1t Is distressing to reflect that all Of the
grandeur and power of Niagara falls Is be-
ing wasted in the manufacture OF cheap
breakfast foods.
Joseph Bashaw, ia years old. has
Just died in Salem, ore. He served In the
war of 1sO6-15 under Napoleon. He drove
an OK team to Oregon in 1sl7. and was then
a gray-haired man.
They have organized a Straphangers'
league in Pittsburg. some OF the most
prominent men of the smoky city being
among the members. H. 8. Rand, super
intendent of a life insurance company, Is
president and new members are being
enrolled by scores daily. The object Is to
demand a seat for every passenger in a
street car. ...
1t is currently reported in New York that
George Vanderbilt. the student member OF
the famous family, has about determined
to take up his abode in Europe, where he
will live for an indefinite period. His man
sion on Fifth avenue will be let provided
a tenant can be secured to pay the $4,000
annual retail asked. Mr.. Vanderbilt is quite
a bookworm, particularly in archaeology
and the literature Of the ancients.
Edward A. Caraway. now a government
police oficer at the Charleston navy yard,
has just begun the fifty-second year OF his
service as an employe of the Navy depart
ment He is now 81 years old. At one time
Mr.. Caraway served in the famous squad
ron of Commodore Perry, whose ships re-
mained in eastern waters until March ..
1854, when the treaty opening the ports OF
japan 10 the world was signed
The last literary work upon which the
late Richard Henry stoddard was engaged
was I'm connection with his 'Recollections
Personal and Literary" volume Of mem
oirs covering a period Of more than nifty
years and anording a glimpse Of many OF
the formost writers of the last half century
including Hawthorne and Thackeray. This
work will be issued probably In the
autumn. Mr. Stoddard was author OF the
much-quoted advice. write II you want
10, but earn your bread some other way"
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-20

Members of the Omaha Real Estate
exchange who went to Lincoln to plead
for equitable municipal taxation Of rail-
road property evidently made a most
profound impression on Governor
Mickey, Auditor Weston and Treasurer
Mortensen, judging by the marked in
crease in the assessment Of the rail-
roads that own $2O,0OO,OOO worth of
terminals in the city of Omaha. The as
sessment of the Union Pacific railroad
alone was raised just 1916 over last year
and will compel that company to con-
tribute 1920 more into the city treasury
than they did under last years state
board assessment
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-20

The Evening Plnkling, which was
responsible for the silly fake about
Howell rushing in with democratic
votes TO elect Moores and snatch VIC
tory from its bolter candidate for mayor
In the recent city election, has swal-
lowed its tale completely with the fat
footed admission that there was moth
ing in it whatever. The story was so
absurd on its face that no one believed
it who was not anxious to have some
balm in defeat. In the perversity Of
politics, however, we presume lots of
people will continue under the delusion
and that the exploded fake will be re-
peated as gospel truth many times in
the future.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-20

The proposal for the French govern
ment to give a premium in the shape
of a decoration to mothers Of large fam
lilies may be all right, but is it not likely
to defeat it's object by ignoring the
fathers? The mothers decoration will
have to go hand in hand with the
fathers decoration II peace is to be
maintained in the family.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-20

trade away from Americans in Man
churia. A representative there Of
southern cotton mills is quoted as say
ing that unless the Russian absorption
of Manchuria is checked the United
States will be deprived within few
years of a most promising market for
cotton goods. There seems very little
probability, however, that the process
of absorption will be checked, so firm
does the grip of Russia appear to be.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-20

The assessment OF the Union Pacific
railroad figured down on the basis Of
last years levy will increase the tax
burdens OF the great trans-cOntlnental
railroad In this county by Just $66,
of which amount S40,5O represents the
share which will go to the county and
school district and $16.50, the amount
by which the state revenues will be in
creased TO make such a marked in
crease In the burdens of the great cor.
porstion the state board must have
strained itself aHfully.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-20
THE DANCER TO PROSPERITY,

Is the unexampled material prosperity
which the United States has experienced
during the last five or six years in dan
ger2 There are not a few who think
It is, believing that the danger lies in
the now widespread antagonism be-
tween capital and labor, which 1t is
feared may become more extended and
more bitter before a truce is called and
an adjustment effected. Those who take
this view contend that the combina-
tions of capital and the organizations Of
labor by their selfish and grasping ten
dencies, are undermining and subvert-
ing the conditions of prosperity.
1t is remarked that as soon as the
opportunities appear those who can com
mand large capital seek to seize more
than their share by the power of COM
bination, to gain control of the instru-
mentalities of production and distrbu-
ton and thereby arrogate to themselves
an undue proportion Of the fruits. This
spirit of selfish greed" says a writer,
+is stimulated by the chances that pros
porous conditions afford and in depriv-
ing those who have less command over
capital of an opportunity for its use on
equal terms it begets resentment and
discomfort that are not without justifica-
ton. At the same time there is awak-
ened in organizations of labor cor
responding eagerness to gain all that
can be grasped of the fruits of increased
production. They contend also for the
largest attainable share in the spoils of
industry by seeking to make a monopoly
of labor in some of its most essential
lines" It will hardly be questioned that
this is a very fair and accurate state
ment of the situation. And 1t is not
an unprecedented experience of the ef-
feet of prosperous conditions, though
perhaps rather more pronounced in the
last year or two than ever before. as the
prosperity of the country has been
greater than at any previous time.
That this noted tendency on the part
of both capital and labor may overreach
itself and arrest the very industrial ac-
tivity from which it's gains are derived
Is an obvious danger. Indeed It is a
fact that already the overcapitalization
that demands inordinate profits and
forces high prices and the demands of
labor enforced by strikes and answered
with lockouts are checking the forces
Of production, hindering the Interchange
of it's fruits and wasting the substance
that 1t has accumulated. If this state of
affairs shall be greatly prolonged 1t is
not difficult to understand that it may
result in a crisis that Will end the era
of prosperity and bring period of pain
full reaction and slow recovery.
This danger should command the seri
GUS attention Of all and lead both CAPT
tai and labor TO earnestly seek just
and reasonable way for averting IT.
With industrial peace there is no doubt
regarding a continuance of prosperity
All material conditions favor 1t. The
prospect is for an enormous addition tC
the wealth of the country from thi;
years crops. There is still a large de
mand for manufactured products a
home and abroad. With harmony re
stored between capital and labor the
next few years, there is every reason t.
believe, would witness greater materia
progress and prosperity than any perloC
that has passed.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-20
just watch Themi
Chicago Chronicle.

When we consider that there is $1,000
900 involved I'm the Panama canal route
concession We may dismiss as absurd the
talk that Colombian legislators will reject
the American proposition. Unless Colom-
bian statesmen are entirely different from
our own their nostriis are acutely sensitive
to the fragrant odor Of frying pork, and II
Is obvious that S1O.OO0OOo will furnish much
sausage, spare ribs and chitterlingA
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-20

The attorneys for the Northern Sc
curities company find. that the repre-
sentatlves Of the government are right
on the spot TO help them advance the
hearing of the appeal in the supreme
court. II there are any loopholes i'm
the law by which the anti-merger de
cision is TO be reversed we might as
well know II as early as possible 50
congress can patch up the holes.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-20

Down at New Orleans the state courts
and the federal courts appear to be at
variance on the question of legality Of
scalplng railway excursion tickets, the
scalpers, having won out in one court
and the railroads In the other. The
two courts might call in some one to
arbitrate between them.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-20

The signing by Governor Yates OF the
Mueller traction bill authorizing the ac-
QUESTION and operation of the street rail
ways by the city of Chicago is the most
notable step i'm the direction of municipal
ownership that has occurred I'm years
There are only two street railway sys-
tens in the country that belong TO mu-
nicipalitles-One in the little town of
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-20
PeriIs of Inqui,i;iveneSs.
Baltimore American.

Baltimore American
Women immigrant inspectors have been
dropped 1t was charged against them
that they inspected with all the zeal of
feminine curiousity backed by Ofhclal
authority. and the combination proved
too much for some OF the women inspected,
who complained with all the fervor Of
feminine rage backed by the power OF
tempestuous tongues.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-20

Grand Junction, Colo, and the other the
motor line across the Brooklyn bridge.
The change in public sentiment on this
subject can only be realized by imag-
lining the general popular protest that
would have been made had the propo-
sltion for municipal ownership of street
railways in a city Of the size of Chi
cago been seriously advanced a decade
ago
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-20

From the parliamentary language
used by Senator Piatt in denouncing
the assertions Of Mr.. Tulloch as IAN
absolute lie," the gentleman from New
York must imagine he is addressing
some Of his fellow senator's ON the floor
Of the United States senate.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-20

Another point has been scored for the
Postal Telegraph against the Western
Union In the fight for right of way
along the Pennsylvania lines. 1t is
possible we may have competition in
telegraph tolls yet, but it is more prob
able that the two big telegraph COM
panies after sparring for vantage will
get together and let the public foot the
bills, Ns tr
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-20

1t seems that Clarence H. Venner,
who at one time figured prominently in
the Reorganization deal Of the Omaha
water works, has run up against a diff
ferent game in Illinois than what he
had to meet In Nebraska.