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New-York tribune., 1903-01-01

Foreign Coftee 10000 r2arket h5da' co
Eo sSs0e. FxchanEe 2T-25d. receipts 1000 bags;
ss-ed Tor the United States 5000 bags: cleared lor
TS--oSe nQs9 rags. stock coo Saltos-Conee
1s steady: GOOD average Santos, 4S1Oo; receipts 24O
1-srr- sro~E 1s5S 600 bags. HambUrg-CoHee market
opened nnohanged 20 n was net uncaIgeo; ssles,
100 49, TIsxre-CoHee market steady and unchanged;
70 - 7,nchsneed: al : quiet and unchanged; az
"a : n Incranged total sales 1890 bags Io-noTro~
-.-us-- IL b
New-York tribune., 1903-01-01

WEST SHORE
RAILROAD.
CNev York Central & Hudson River R R. Lessss1
Trains leave Fran&'h St Station. New Yors az fot@
lows and Is min later foot Of West &c St. N r.:
10 A. M-For intermediate points 20 Albany.
TIL 20 A ND Saratoga and Mohawk Express.
100 P NJ Chicago Express
.225 P. M-cont Lin. for Detroit Chit q 81. Louis
+3 As P M-(2D For Hudson River points anc Albany.
s6-00 ?. M--Fo- Roch-. Buffalo. C1evePd & Chicago.
f745 P M-For Roch. Buffalo. Detroit and Louis
'915 P MFor SYRIA. ROch.. Niagara Falls Det & Chi
Daily fDatly except Sunday Leaves Brooklyn Annsx-
% at f1o.+5 A. VI c2 at z IS P u Le4yes Jsrssy
Time tables principal hotels and Offices Bagsags
checked from hotel restdenca By Westcott Express
A n SMITH c. z. LAMBERT.
Generai Superintendent General Passenger Agent
New-York tribune., 1903-01-01

cotton zchsass special tsepefl ts5ssSfoS and e SO
quiet sales .oD rsoetSfr 1900: American Ssssy
EILeIaes-t. I4d Futures opened oAreS points
GEg uPaanlsa Pals5e Closed fairly s.sasy Febrar
pol1uS ec- Januery-F en1 Fune
lover SsIssss. snd Apr-Aay. so1a; august.
1s 60 gune-July snc stna a,iiet ana
cloths Ern- feature u looI
tLoch -. sInese as trade was largely sn-.ng
Cay NSs -oIseaV character OF al yfn-
Inc WIZ q a. winter strsigh - z24sS % Irs
ss 601sS sprizg clears % . s5a1s2 go
.s sss7Ss No
- - S5s1isa4 eoor snd 70 s-Tipe------0S
New-York tribune., 1903-01-01
6o frhom II map Concern

- ,,ps HAROLD WALLACE NORRIS will ccrnrnur.s-
~. s-r prssenr address % the gnoersgnt sne VII
"a ,.orasThInx that nay &c % her acTanlass n
neaF csTe 81 Nsssrs Rsyus q Son. - Chanesry
- I.oudcn. W. c.. England
New-York tribune., 1903-01-01
Proposals

0rrIrE WASHINGTON AQUEDUCT. 272S
w. Ave washington o. c. Dec p lS.- sealed
q NIssrs pure reservoir ano app1rre-
proposals .S csnsent wli received here unfl y
r. 1e03 and then publicly ooensd inioFlNa14o1 On
: : s~ni,csf.on a. " Miller. II Col Ensrs
New-York tribune., 1903-01-01

TlStJSGIIslead duness usually incident to
ne a. preceding holiday cotton speculation today
was T1lv I'D the recent average not on1y as 70
volume 70 The deFe.2LLsiC 81 r1 snd Pas
as well. The market opened o.lsaI-s, ~ ~ s-s1,e -
points higher January al once Icreased Us az ,+
SsS-e he cay had assumed rear position " lls
respect under selling presulnsq 70 o ;h ~ sr+5 o11t
1t-+je bhind the January point Of strength eVenday
sor5 EeoalatiTe sftention and late heavy buying
@ -fes5rsI account by other Wall Street houses
closed up toward the TOP The oT1ea! eloe oe.g s
re day Tere 40 bales There was only one perl2d
depression realizing saies II the ear zSare
oherings absorbed however tnat bearlsnness nae ~
sctson were good buyers close Demand for
March and Nay was chiefly tor Val street poo rrSsion
zs-e -te shsad of last year the general move
Tr IS not likely 70 all oppressive IN the near
For this reason considerable 80 80
seTTatisrn abes enough response 70 hIaness On
this side 70 avoid being detrt-ent 70 tss,s Of
he more sslEsrt the South reports con
-eafv BUYERS OF the staple private English ceoss
noted general European covering loTe14el EsI -e
Tort for the calendar year supen ta5 stovn
olon 1 - sse 90 mai Of It's predecessors.
while deliveries upon contract have Lsss E&cfanre in
Tsst Jus-IIylng she wisooE OF tne 3-c7 I'd
Is abortion years Of the plan e inspect 80
grade al cotton tsn1ersd upon So; 1sTk IS per
fce5 Iser the Supervision the Exchange Is oest az
tsea oy ne @ sy -scere fbe cotton thus rendered;
1hen the fsct that the grading IS hore
s-yrg mower hss src=-n rngh., promising. Il not
~. s-.iE -@s5r1-, IN he near future outstrp the
TIE movement ot ne cl'5- -e-+s7
= ewYor for the celenear 2sSG Ias eross
.olows Stock December 81. 1871 1Ie 80 o@i Sie ne
leoe!pls slaee January iss Ca T Titsin 257 0I2
France 80 bales. % the ofl1lie1
S rae Gli eli aes; burned 200 bales Total 1ltss.l @
leaving stock December 81 isz ,}s2se. zoe s5n
cotton, tacIaoln6 o-i4Net1IS 4P
re range Of contract prices the local market to-day
New-York tribune., 1903-01-01
G1horI A9enass-

. MEXICAN IND FOREIGN TEACHERS AGENCY
Professors, Teachers Tutors tsovernesses
etc 70 Colleges, Schools and Families Apply 70
Mrs n J. YOUNG-FCLTOE. 23 Union Souara
New-York tribune., 1903-01-01

The statistical POSITION ol bI'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-15
Subservient Status of City Post Office.

The report of the civil service commission
upon conditions in the city post office en-
phasizes the tendency of the local office to
become a mere bureau of the national de-
partment and to be utilized in this capacity
for national partisan purposes. The Star
has already commented upon this drift in
discussing Mr.. Tulloch's statement. The
practice of using the local postmastership
as national political spoils IS part of the
bad custom which has grown up OF SINH
larly prostituting practically all of the To-
cal offices, in defiance of the dictates OF
justice and common sense, and in violation
of the spirit or letter OF all the so-called
"home-rule'' pledges of the political plat
forms The Star repeats that in the case
of The local postmastership the danger of
undue subordination to the national de-
partment and of improper use of the post
office as a result of this subordination is
much increased by the appointment of out
siders to this office as partisan reward
for political services rendered, and by hous-
ing this official in a corner of the national
department from which he can be sum-
moned for verbal. unrecorded orders by ma
tional officials, like any other subordinate
clerk. 1t would not to a certainty have
mended matters to appoint Washington
ian postmaster ana TO locate the post OIL
fee where 1t would not bear an obvious
material relation of subordination to the ma
tional department, for the resident chosen for
postmaster might be a weak man, whom no
separation in space or any other precau-
ton taken could save from undue subser
viency to the national postal officials and
partisan leaders. But the policy would be
a step in the right direction. 1t would have
given the capital additional chances of bet
terment. Washington is entitled. like any
other American city, to a resident postmas-
ter who Is satisfactory to the community,
and to a post office as independent as that
of Philadelphia or New York, and not
mere annex to the national postal admin
istration, available for irregular and i'm
proper uses by the officials of the federal
department.
The specific Irregularities in methods of
several years ago which Mr.. Tulloch dis
closes as observed by him while cashier of
the city post office WILL of course. be care
fully noted, and examination will show
whether similar variations from sound ad-
ministration still exist, needing to be cor
rected. But whether any other advantage
or not is derived from Mr.. Tulloch's allie
cations an obvious benefit conferred by
him is in the warning which he gives of the
dangerous relation to the national depart
ment into which the local post office has
been and Is drifting
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-15

insist too strongly upon matters of delicate
adjustment. A strike would perhaps be
precisely what the operators want, and
strike would clearly go no further toward
settling the most serious issue between the
two sides than did that which was ended
last autumn. That issue is as to the recog-
milton of the union The commission point
eddy indicated that the union should be
given a standing on the board of concilia-
ton in case it represented a majority of
the workers The best way for The unions
to force the issue is to elect the three men
by ballot at the convention and then to ad-
journ, leaving upon the operators the re-
sponsibility for accepting or rejec ting these
representa- tives.
Should the operators accept the men thus
named the union would secure S. standing
ii never had before Should the operators
reject them they would at once be the tar
gets for an outraged public sentiment which
would soon exert a more powerfully cor
receive influence upon the mine owners
than would resumption of the strike.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-15
A Coal Issue,

A convention OF the hard coal miners as
sembles today at Scranton. Pa. to consider
a new grievance against the operators. The
latter have refused to accept certain men
as members OF the board of Cancellation
provided for by the Presidents commission.
The miners contend that the operators have
no right to scrutiniZe the credentials of the
men who present themselves for member
ship on the board provided there Is no rival
claim. The operators aver that the miners
representatives must have proper creden-
tials in order to ensure against future re-
quotations by the men of agreements
reached by the concliators. The miners
argue in answer that the commission did
not see fit to. guard against this point on
either side. imposing upon the miners no
other condition than that their conciliators
should be chosen by any organization IL it
existed, representing majority of the
workers The men further allege that there
is as much assurance of an acceptance by
them of the acts of the board of concilia-
ton as of a faithful performance by the
operators.
Unquestionably public sympathy lies
strongly In this case with the miners. 1t is
generally felt that the operators are going
beyond their province to dictate as to the
method by which these conciliators shall be
chosen. Their claim that the three repre-
sentatives should be elected by balloting at
the collieries is absurd on its face in view
or the terms of the commissions award. At
the same time the question arises whether
u Is wise or safe for the miners leaders to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-15
Kentucky's Great Trial.

Kentucky's burden of crime Is daily grow
ing heavier. The feudists are undismayed by
the commands of the courts and the pres
ence of the militia, and are resorting to
every possible move to prevent a full ex-
posture of the truth in the cases now on
hearing. Their latest act is the burning of
a hotel owned by the principal witness
against Jett and White, the men on trial
for the murder of Lawyer Marcum. This
was clearly intended a warning to Even.
the witness, not to testify as he has prom
Used to do. He was not personally men
aced as he has been detained at the militia
camp, but his property was totally de-
stroyed. The horror of the deed lies in the
tel, innocent of any connection with Ewen's
testimony, were in the building when it
was fired in the night. Their lives were
placed in jeopardy apparently with no more
thought than the feudists would show for
the innocent if they were to attack a vic
tim in a crowded street. -
If the state of Kentucky does not punish
the men who have violated its law and de-
graded the courts and precpita ted d virtual
condition of anarchy in Breathitt county 1t
will have forfeited it's right to regard as a
capable commonwealth. Its course Is being
closely observed. Every new crime is scru-
tinized in detail. The citizens of all parts
of the United States are hoping for the
triumph of law and order. but fearing that
the habit of defiance on the part of the
feudsts is too strong to be broken without
a determined and bloody conflict.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-15
July 4 and Saturday.

Ordinarily The Star does not undertake
in it's columns to reply to queries But oc-
casionally the inquiries relate to matters
of such public interest that 1t is evidently
wise to allow the general readers OF the
paper to participate in the information
sought by the correspondents. That is why
The Star now undertakes to enlighten the
Constant Reader" whose postal card has
just been received. asking: ''Win you
please inform me through your valuable
columns II the 4th of July ever fell on
Saturday before this year?"' Some one
has evidently been perplexed by the va
carries of the peculiar laws which have been
devised by man in an effort to secure q
harmony between the periodicity of the
sun and the earth. Certain days are named
and certain number of them constitute
a week and certain varying numbers Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-15
Flag DaY.

Children lay aside their lessons and elders
pause in their work today to salute the
American flag. True, with the good Ameri-
can every day is flag day in that at all
times he does honor to the principles for
which the flag stands but this day he
not only reverently contemplates the sub
stance. but the symbol. He celebrates the
natal day of a bit of majestic bunting-the
emblem of the rights of MANTLE right of
equality before the law, the right of equal
ity of opportunity, the right to grow from
low to high, the right of man to make the
greatest and the fairest use of the faculties
God gave him. 1t is flag which has hung
out message of hope to the common
people of the world. flag which has been
an inspiration to the oppressed and a red
rag to the oppressor. 1t is flag that has
been exalted by virtue in peace and heroism
in war.
Congress, on June IA, 1777, adopted a
resolution that the flag of the thirteen
United States be thirteen stripes alternate
red and white; that the Union be thirteen
stars white on a blue field. representing
the new constellation" In the one hundred
and twenty-six years passed since the
adoption of the flag not "a stripe has been
polluted nor a single star erased But
stars have been added
Flag day. though not legal holiday. has
come to be a national observance, and if
the idea. which blends the practical with
the sentimental In harmonious proportion
shall grow in favor during the next decade
as 1t has grown in favor during the last,
it will be universally observed by Ameri-
cans
When the historian shall collect all data
relating to flag day he will find that though
the idea may not have originated in the
District of Columbia, the American capital
was quick to see the appropriateness of it
and to give it welcome. 1t has been said
that the father of the proposal to give
national salute to the flag on the ami
versary of its birth was George Balch and
that the first flag day observance was in
the kindergarten schools of New York city
in the early '70s. There is another claim
that the credit of the first observance of
flag day belongs to the Connecticut So
ciety of the Sons of the American Reyolu-
ton and that the date of such observance
was June IA. 1890. $50
1t is matter of record that in the spring
of 1891 a committee of the District of Co
lumbia Society, Sons of the American RevO-
luton. addressed the Commissioners of the
District of Columbia and the governors of
the states on the proposition to specially
mark the day and that the Commissioners
replied by issuing a proclamation request
ing citizens to hang out their flags on Old
Glorys birthday. The public response was
cordial and the capital was spangled with
flags. Each year more bunting was I'M
fured In 1895 flag day ceremonies were
held under the auspices of the Women's Re-
lief Corps at the First Presbyterian Church.
Soon after. this gentle patriotic fancy was
taken up in the public schools and now each
year the children listen to the story of the
flag. and share in the ceremony of prais-
ing it in song and verse. Flag day Is
happy prelude to Independence day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-15
The Northern Securities Company.

The announcement that the manipulators
of the Northern Securities Company may
avoid direct issue with the government
by dissolving that form of organization is
to a certain extent gratifying to those who
believe that it is an Illegal corporation. But
the public joy must be restrained to some
extent. 1t is never safe to exult over the
downfall of a trust until the body is actu-
ally inferred. And even then it is well to
see if some new trust is not brought into
existence to replace the old one. 1t is just
possible that the men behind the Northern
Securities Company have found a way to
circumvent the law
1t is noted that the appeal now pending
before the United States Supreme Court
will be carried to it's conclusion even IL
the securities company goes out of exist
ence. This is hardly credible. The Supreme
Court is not inclined to decide moot points.
1t of course recognizes the necessity of
rendering opinions in comparatively small
cases in order to record It's view upon a
vital principle of law. But it has more
than once in the past refused to hear argu-
ments when 1t was evident that the case
was fictitious. representing no actual ex-
listing interest. Nor is il to be believed that
the government would consent to become
ticed upon the court to preserve the ap-
pearance of a genuine appeal of real is
sue. The government has won it's case up
to the present stage and it is not seriously
concerned in the effort to upset its con-
tentions.
At the same time 1t is desirable that all
doubts regarding the intent and scope of
the Sherman antitrust law should be set
tied early. But a reference of a moot point
covering only one phase of the matter is
not the proper or most profitable manner of
reaching solution. If the Northern Secur-
tiles Company dissolves in the face of gov
ernmental opposition the moral victory will
be considerable and the agents of the law
will be encouraged to move the more Wig
orously and persistently against all other
forms of combined capital which are APP
parently in restraint of trade.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-15

them make the months and evenly uneven
numbers of them make year There Is no
more confusing undertaking than the ef-
fort to count back to make sure of the
day of the week. of date in the remote
past But patient people have done SO with
mathematical accuracy so that 1t Is pos
sible for The Star now to answer the ques-
ton thus: Since the Declaration of lnde-
pendence was signed the anniversary OF
Independence Day has fallen on Saturday
in ITS, 1859. 1795. 1901. 1907. 1917. 1918
1929, 1885, 1910, 1916, 1857. 1868. 1868. 1874.
1885, 1891 and 1896 And furthermore. II
may be stated, if the Information will be OF
consequence to any, that it will similarly
fall on Saturday in the following future
years. 1908. 1914 1925. 1881, 1886. 1912, 1858
1859 1864 and 1870 and SO on ad infinitum'
until the human family takes no further
interest in considerations of time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-15

Any talk of a decadence of international
interest in yacht racing is absurd In view
of the spectacle just now presented In the
matter of the Americas cup regatta. Yes
terday two crack English racers arrived. to
join a third one which has passed two Win
tiers here, the three soon to be taken to sea
for thorough trying-out series of tests.
To meet them there are three American
yachts, in any one of which the public on
this side has full confidence. These six
boats represent large sum of money and
a heavy expenditure of time and thought.
Their daily moves are closely observed
and carefully reported and millions of peo-
pie eagerly read all that is printed about
them even in the interior of the country
where boats are never seen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-15
Insist on Clean Milk.
From the Philadelphia Ledger.

In undertaking a systematic and scien-
tific inspection of the sale of milk the bu-
reau of health may accomplish very valu-
able results. If it be not always possible
sanitary requirement, 1t Is at least pos
sible to hold up a sound standard with
which compliance may be gradually secured
Much of the carelessness and slovenliness OF
the small dealers is due to Ignorance. They
have never learned the Importance of clean
illness. and. therefore, take no pains to
secure it. and for the same reason their
customers do not insist upon it. A cam.
paign of education Is necessary to enlighter
the prevailing darkness, and by the con-
slant iteration of precise instructions the
officials may do much to protect the pub
lie health.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-15
Would Not Hurt Roosevelt.
om the New York Tribune.

From the New York Tribune.
If there are wall street men, who are
at present taking sort of satisfaction in
the thought that. while Mr.. Roosevelt 8
nomination is apparently inevitable. 1t win
be their privilege to withhold during the
campaign the pecuniary support essential
to his success, their true policy is to keep
it. dark. A general impression that Wall
street. was bound to get square" with the
President would have the effect, to a dead
certainty. of flooding the republican mana
gers with so much money from a million
sources that they wouldn't know what to
do with it. Campaign committees almost
always have bigger funds than their real
needs demand. and 1t would be a mournful
reflection for Wall street opponents of the
President that, besides defeating their own
scheme. they had encouraged an extrava-
CANT expenditure on the other side.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-15
The Current Vocabulary.

I used to know a lot of words,
l understood them we'll.
Twas hard to bring me one which
Could not pronounce or SPELL
But as 1 scan the papers now.
A blush makes warm my face.
I dread that soon I'll have to feel 49,
The dunce-cap's dire disgrace.
These myriad patent foods with names
Each fraught with mystery deep!
These sleeping cars with titles queer.
That WOO the brain from sleep!
The list of horses in a race
The chatty base bah screed-
Is there no school where 1 may go
Once more and learn to read?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-15
Extremely Cynical.

wasn't that a dreadful scandal"
Yes answer Miss Cayenne.
II understand the people concerned are
almost heartbroken."
That's true. 1t was dreadful humilia-
ton to them to find they didn't have enough
influence to keep it out of the newspa pers."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-15
Doubt.

81 saw several men going down the street
with guns on their shoulders" said the citi-
zen of a small European government.
THAT may mean something serious" said
the official.
Yes; and it may mean nothing. You
can't tell, these days, whether a man is
going to start coup detat or is merely off
on a hunting expedition"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-15

If the large cities of Alaska can keep up
the business of selling outfits to miners and
buying them back at half price they will
undoubtedly become as prosperous as the
President predicts
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-15

1t looks as if the young man who Is under
the charge of appropriating District FUNDS
played lone hand This showed more con-
sideration than was displayed in some OF
the Post Office Department transactions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-15
Too Much Mental Effort

$50 you don't ike dialect stories?'
Not much. The trouble with dialect Is
that after you have managed to spell 1t
out, you forget what the story was about"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-15

A Michigan woman arrested for poison
ing boasts of her crimes. Her brain was
probably as deficiently developed as that OF
the late king of Servia. but this does not
help the situation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-15

News of a big winning of some sort by
Mr.. John Gates would be welcome. Mr..
Gates has held the hoodoo record long
enough.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-06-15
The Way Of the West.

From the indianapolis Journal.
People of the west are going to work with
a will as the waters recede to repair the
ravages of the flood. Within a month
there will be comparatively little evidence
of the devastation in Kansas and Iowa