Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 25, 1901, Page 6

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Net total sales. . 1 007,407 Net dally average................. 39,274 GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Bubscribed In my presence and sworn to before me this 3lst day of October, A. D. 2001, M. B. HUNGATE, (Seal) Notary Public. If Samon is ever annexed Nebraska whould have first claim to colonize it. E— It is always easier to do nothing than to do something. The community that does nothing, however, is distancéd in the race. Judging from its personnel, the com- mittee appointed to wrestle with the consolidation problem seems to be built on the plan of a diversity of interests. ‘'he same newspaper stood up for Bartley after his embezzle- ment had been disclosed are standing up for Stuefer and his crooked bond deals, Whenever a public officer i& exposed in a plece of crooked work, he always blames the persons uncovering him for the frouble he has brought upon him- self. organs that The school board would strike a popu- Iar chord by making a New Year's resolution to abolish the odicus secret ballot in the election of its officers and employ For Yale to get a goose egg at the hands, or rather feet, of its Harvard rivals in the year of its bicentenninl makes the jgnominy all the more diffi- cult to endure. ——— It appears that Senator Patderson told the people fu attendance upon the con solidation meeting, called by the Real Estate exchange, several things that they did not want to hear, cm— As the only living ex-president Mr. Céeveland's health ix an object of solici- tude on the part of all American citi- zens, who hope that his life may be spared for many years to come, — Austrian life insurance companics are said to resent the intrusion of American life insurance companies seeking to make Inroads on their territory. And our fraternals haven't touched them yet. ———— ‘fhe republican party stands for honesty and integrity in the manage- ment of public affairs’ The republican party cannot afford to shield or defend officers who betray their trusts when honored at its hands, H There is Imminent danger that Our DPave will be in such haste in his race across the continent to connect with the opening of congress that he will not have time to stop off to congratulate the Boys who did the fighting at home S Those suburban lectric vailways radiating out from Owaha are bound to come hecanse the business in sight will soon fully justify their construc tion. But no speculative franchises need be given away to bring this about. It is plain that the pilgtimage made by David B. Hill to Lincoln just prior to the Kansas Oity convention did not r move the necesity of further evide to prove that he ix a democrat to the satisfaction of Mr. Bryan's Nebraska admirers, It the Englishman failed to turn an| honest penny ont of King Edward's cor- onation by renting his house to foreign visitors and: subletting other little priv- claim of helonging to & nation of shopkeepers aight be for feited, ——— Omaha's city charter prohibits the granting or extension of any franchise except by vote of the people ratifying & proposition duly submitt 1t is too bad that South Omaha's new charter was so carefully framed to omit this salutary provision. 1t i the design to make the MceKin ley national memorial a o the lamented president, [f ev ad- miver of the great MelKinley would con- tribute his mite, the would luclude every man, W of matwe intellect o the country ) pular tribute list of contributors woman and Al RESIGNATION OVERDUD, When the first republican governor, chosen after Nebraska's attainment to statehood, became hopelessly involved in seandals growing out of the frandu- lent leasing of school lands, a republican legislature preferred charges of - peachment against him and removed him from office. When a republican state treasurer be. trayed the trust reposed in him by the embezzlement of money belonging to the stute schook fund, be was promptly ar- raigned by republican prosecuting of clals, tried and convicted before repub- lican judges and wade to pay the pen- alty of his odious offense by imprison- ment in the penitentiary. When only a few weeks ago a candi date nominated for a minor office on the republican state ticket was found to bave been an Innocent beneficlary of stolen %chool money, republicans throughout Nebraska with almost unanimity of mind demanded his withdrawal and out of respect to the party that had hon ored him he filed a voluntary resigna- tion from the ticket. When in the face of all these lessons another republican state treasurer per- mits the sacred trust funds in his cus- tody that make up the endowment of the public schools to be used for pri- vate gain, can any republican who has the interest of Lis state and his party truly at heart lend countenance to such indetensible action? When the demand was made upon Joseph 8, Bartley that he make a cash ounting on turning over at the com pletion of his first term us treasurer, he defiantly retorted that if the de mand were insisted on he would meet It with his rvesignation. Later events proved that it would have been better for both Bartley and the state had his resignation been forced at that time. When the late republican state conve tion embodied in its platform a demand upon all custodlans of public fuuds for periodicnl -exhibits of the amounts and whercabouts of public moneys confided to their keeping, Treasurer Stuefer said e would resign before he would com- ply. Mr. Stuefer's resignation is now overdue, Ty NICARAGUA CANAL BILL Representative Hepburn of lowa, Who reported the Nicaragua canal bill which was passed by the Louse of representa- tives at the last sessfon of congress, tends to again introduce the measure at the opening of the coming session, which will be a week froni today. It {s the opinion of Mr. Hepburn that no waterial changes will be needed in the bill, unless there shall be found in the new canal treaty, when ratitied, some- thing that will require a reconstruction of the measure, He stated a few days ago that from the information he had re- ceived there is nothing in the agree- ment with Great Britaln which will an isthmian canal exactly as we choose and as provided by the house bill of last sesslon. hat measure authorizes the president of the United States to acquire from Costa Rica and Nicaragua for the United States control of such territory be. longing to those countries as may be de- sirable and necessary on which to con- struct a cunal. When control’ of such territory shall have been secured, th bill requires that the secretary of war shall be directed to excavate and con- struct u canal between points desig- nated. The sum of $140,000,000, or so much thercof as may be necessary, is appropriated for the completion of the work, the money to be drawn from the treasury from time to time as the same shall be needed. It is probable that some modifications will have to be made ) the bill, but in any event there ap- pears to be no doubt of its passage it the new treaty is ratified, which now secs assured. Meanwhile the announcement is made that the Department of State, having ived an advauce notice of the con- tents of the canal commission’s report, is preparing to negotiate new treaties with Nicaragua and Costa Rica, in pursuance of the protocols signed some mouths ago. The understanding alveady effected between our government and the two Central American states gives assurance that no difficulty will be found in securing control of the terri- tory necessary for the construction of the proposed canal. It is thus made practically certain that the Nicaragua route will be selected, regardless of any proposition that may yet come from the Panama compan, PUBLICITY FOR TRUSTS. Forecasts of President - Roosevelt's message state that his attitude on the trust question will appeal to the pop- ular feeling In regavd to the combina- tions and while be will recommend no specific action by congress, he will go at least as far as be did when governor of New York and insist on publicity in the operations of combinations of cap- ital. How this publicity aud super- vision ave to be maintained b will leave to the supervision of congres 1t is said that influential members of con- | gress have endeavored to dissuade the president from an aggressive attitude as to trusts, but so far as can be learned be has put @ good deal of force in the paragraph deallug with industrial com | binations and bas handled the subject | vigorously fu his | message to the New York velt sald: “That abuses exist and that | they ave of a very grave character it is | 'worse than idle to deny. Just so long as in the business world unscrupulous cunning is allowed the free vein which, thanks to the growth of humanity dur- ing the past centnries, we now deny to unscrupulons physical fe then just %0 long there will be a field for the best effort of every honest ‘social and civie veformer who Is capable of feeling an impulse of generons Indignation, —and where the real danger to the country lies. The effects are bad enough when the unscrupulous individual works by himself. They ar in ¢ a glant corporation or trust. l prevent the United States from building | legislature in January, 1900, Mr, Roose- | who Is far-sighted enough to appreciate worse when he works junction with his fellows through The first essential I8 kuowledge of the facts-pub- | jis (ar castern possessions. By the tlme | queathed to him. THE lieity. whether stock represents value of plants, or sents brands or g what It does repre is desirable to know how much actually bought, how much was issued free and to whom, and, if possible, for what reason.” In subsequent utterances rvegarding the industrial combinations, Mr, Roos velt has urged the idea of publicity, as perhaps the most ential element of any legislation dealing with trusts This view fs very generally approved. Jdames B. Dill of New York, who has served as legal adviser of several large trusts, said recently that publicity “would redound not only to the benefit of the publie, to the steadying of indus. trinl finances, to the making of indus trial securities a permanent fnvestment for holders, large and small, but would also prevent the formation of blind pools, mdustrial swindles and tend to avert financial panjes” 1t Is very gen erally recognized that to secure the same standard of publicity in the reports of all the great corporations state legisla- tion 18 inadequate, since it Is hopeless to expect it to he pra uniform. Consequently in order to se cure publicity there must be national legislation and no more timely service can be done by President = Roosevelt than to Jmpréss on congress the neces- sity of legislation with this end pri- marily in vie LOCAL TRADE CONDITIONS. Reports on all sides are to the effect that Omaha 18 enjoying most favorable local trade conditions. While the pro tracted fall weather, retarding winter purchases, hus been a disturbing ele ment to the extent of deferring the be ginning of the buying season, the ability of the people to make purchases accord ing to their demands has never been better. T We should know authoritatively the adtnal whether repre W will: it «ent, If anything. it or, not, It was | yoar just closing Las probably less of enforced idleness among the working classes in Omaha and vicinity than any previous y Not only have all the mechanics, artisans and laborers been steadily employed, but they have been employed at wages that enable them to support their families with in- creasing comfort and Iveniences, When the people h no money to spend the merchants cannot attract cus- tomers, no matter what bargains they may offer, but when the workingman has an assured and regular income the business of the retailer need not lag. Another factor that contributes to the upbuilding of local business in Omaha is the loyalty of Omaha people to their city. While there is still room for im- provement in this respect, the people of this community have been educated up to a realization of the benefits resulting from the patronage of home industry and home institutions., The merchant who can rely upon the patronage of his fellow townsmen kpows that he has a sure foundation to bulld on that will warrant enlargement and expansion, Omaha merchants ave, a rule, awake to: their opportunities, and by taking advantage of present promising conditions” shonld drive a brisk trade from now on into the new year. Vo One of the objections raised against the appointment of a German American as suceessor of the late Con sul General Osborn at Apia his foreign birth might impair his force as a representative of the American gov ernment in disputed matters to which | the German government might be «a party. We¢ thought we had passed the time when the staunch Americanism of citizens who deliberately left the fatherland to share the benefits of freer | institutions in this country would be subject to the slightest imputation. The | true Germau-Ameriean pla the United States first in his patriotic devo tion and the renounced German empire always second. was that | | Former Senator Allen insists that the democrats and populists have distinetly different alms and objects, yet should continue to co-operate on ihe fusion plan. The bond of union is, of course, the offices. If, however, the members of the two parties believe in different prin- ciples the arguments are not cogent for them to keep voting for the same men, —— Suppose it had been shown that the state treasurer had handed over to a confederate the whole bond belonging to the school fund instead of Just the interest coupons, would we have to bave some one prefer sworn charges in writing to that effect before the gov- ernor would even take cognizance of the theft? rovidence Now. Chicago Post, Senator Stewart says Providence settled the silver question. This should make it easier for Mr. Bryan te cut his cards for a new deal. Up to Avprehen Washington Star it should have been made a condition of Pat Crowe's return that he would promise not to kidoap any members of the recep. tion committee. A Common Character J. Sterling Morton's Conservative, We note that when a political machine is smashed the smashers always gather up tew stray levers, cogs, belts and pulleys and orgapize @ reconstruction bureau Part of the Business, Clevelund Plain Dealer President Roosevelt doesn't like it at all because official news leaks out and into the newspapers ahead of time. But that's the sort of strenuous business that modern news getting is. The Old Adam A Baltimore American The offcer who hypothecated $70,000 from | the order of the Maccabees falls hack on the old plea, “A woman tempted me.” He should have reflected that this excuse did not avail in the original instance. ble Without Sabsidy, Philadelphia Record While American statesmen continue to discuss the scheme for @ subventioned submarive telegraph line from our cosst to the Philippines, the recently organized Com- mercial Pacific Cable company is fashion ing the first section of the chain whereby 1t proposes to link the United States with | te. o ' OMAHA DAILY BE DAY, E: MON congressmen shall get through talking about spending part of our redundant rev- enues on a Pacific cable private capital will have put down the wires that will complete the electric girdle of the world. Philadelphia Ledger There is nothing small about the prop- osition of a syndicate to buy up the rail- roads ef the country and sell them to the government Equality in Taxation, Buftalo Express One effect of the decisions of the suprems court of Illinois in the matter of fran- chise taxation is seen in a movement started by the St. Louls Board of Educa- tion to force the Missouri State Board of Equalization to tax franchises. When this scheme of taxation is carried out completely in all states a vast amount of revenue will bo added to the public treasuries. Get Iuto the Bandwagon. Philadelphia Ledger The French journalist who predicts the world supremacy of the United States within the present century is merely exercising the ueual Journalistic presclence and his ad- vice to his own country to make friends with ours in such a way as to secure fair share of American trade s wise It means reciprocity and mutual trade ad- vantages, rather than commercial war, Teetotnlers Are Good Risks. Washington Star Some {naurance companies are now issu- 1ng policies to total abstainers as & separate class. Whether or not the total abstainer is likely to live longer or not is a matter still in debate. But there ia not much doubt that, as & rule, be will average higher than the other people in keeping policies from lapsing, und that fact might make a difference to the disadvantage of the policy- holders whose claims come to final settle- ment An “Old Saw"” Reground. Portiand Oregonlun. Shakespeare makes somebody say, I am a great eater of beef, and I believe it does harm to my wit” But are the beef-eaters 80 stupid? The Italians con- sume twenty-four pounds per annum per capita, the Spaniards twenty-seven pounds, Bohemians and Hungarlans thirty-one pounds and the Amerlcans 146 pounds. Are Americans and Englishmen prepared to.deny that beef, brains and brawn go together aund o put the Italian at the top? Why This Discriminationt Washington Post The mere fact that England is toasted ex- isively at representative New York fune- tions inevitably prompts the query: Why? | Certalnly it is not because Eugland or Eng- lishmen contribute chiefly to our national prosperity and expansi Altogether too best and most wholesome additions to our population have been made by Germany, Sweden and Norway. These have helped to build up the country. They and the Irish make the bone and sinew of the imported element. Why is it mecessary to (cg it the British monarch and ignore such ioreign rulers as Willlam I of Germany? Why is it necessary to toast any foreign ruler of whatever nationality? Why, indeed, save for the gayety of nations? MENT OF THE WEST, of the Days of the Keel Hon'tman. One of the features of the December (Christmag) Century is the second install- | ment of ““The Settlement of the West; A | Study in Transportation,” by Emerson Hough. with plctures by Frederick Reming- ton. This chapter of the epic of the west is entitled “Aguinst the Waters.” It begins with an account of “the upstream man.’ In 1810 the western frontier of the United States slanted like the roof: of a | house from Maine to Louisiana. The cen ter of population was almost exactly upon the site of the city of Washington. The west was a distinct section and it was a section which had begun to develop an | aristocracy. We still wore linsey-woolsey in Kentucky, still pounded our corn in a | hollow stump in Ohio, still killed our In- dians with the ancient fathers, s'{ll took our produce to Now Or- leans in flathoats, still were primitive in many ways. None the less we had among us an aristocrat, a man ‘who classified him- self as better than his fellow man. There | had been born that early captain of irans- portation, the keel boatman, the man who could go up stream. The latter had for the stationars or semi-stationary man a vast and genuine contempl as no mad man has ever bad for the man of anchored habit. There was warrant for this feeling of superiority, for tha keel-boat opoch was a great onme in American history. Had this clumsy craft never been supplanted by the steamboat its victories would have been of greater value to America than all the triumphs it ever won upon the seas. As for the keel boatmen themselves, they | were a hardy, wild and reckless breed. { They spent their days in the blazing sun, their heads drooping over the setting pole, their feet steadily trudging the walking boards of thelr great vessel from morning until night and day after day. A wild life, v one and a brief was that lived by culiar class of men who made char- acters for one of the vivid chapters in the tale of the early west. Mike Fink, they tell ug, was a king among the keel boatmen at the date of the in- troduction of steamcraft upon the Ohio and the Mississippi, a man of medium height, weighing about 180 pounds, all bone and brawn, a champlon with the rifie, & master in fisticuffs, a hard drinker, a hard worker, of temper alternately sullen and merry and of a sheer physical force which deminated all he met in his rude calling. This is the man who figures in a well known anecdote recounted by different early writers. It seems that he hnd a bosom friend named Carpenter, with whom he was wont to en- gage in a certain risky pastime. “‘Car- penter and Mike used to fill a tin cup with whisky,” says one chronicler, “and place it by turns on each other's heads and shoot at it with a rifle at the distance of seventy yards. It was always bored through without injury to the one on whose head it was placed. This feat s too well au- thenticated to admit of question. It was often performed and they liked the feat | the better because it showed their confi- dence in each other.” Yet it fell out that after 4 long and much-tried frieudship these two last bad a quarrel, which parted them, and it was some time before their friends could bring about a recon- ciliation. A truce was patched up, how- ever, and to bind It the two agreed to re- sort to thelr old test of amity. Mike won the and it was Carpenter who was chosen by fate to carry the tin cup for the other's aim. Carpenter knew what was to follow and he then and thece made his will, gIviog his rifle, pistols and equipment to bis friend Talbot. He was too proud to ask for his life, though he knew Mike | Pink's treachery and relentlessness. Fold- ing his arms Carpenter stood calm and steady with the cup on hie head. Fink shot bim square through the forehead and then calmly chided him for spilling the contents of the cup. He pretended 1o be sorry when told he had killed his friend. An offcer of the frontier overtook him, when off his guard, at a later day and shot him with one of the very pistols Carpenter bad be- woapon of our toss NOVEMBER 25 st Perhaps those members of congress aro correct who are saying that President Roosevelt is favorable to the movement in a sclentific and extended system of irriga- tion. Senator Warren of Wyoming, a state which Is vitally interested in irrigation, and who is one of fte enthusiastic advo cates, s confident that the president is on their side. Becretary Hitcheock is a friend of the scheme. The votes of a majority of the congressmen from the whole reglon between the Mississippi and the Pacific can be relied on for any intelligent plan of irri- gation One of the reasons why the champions of irrigation feel that President Roosevelt will be with them fs that he resided in their locality for part of several years and knows the need of the adoption of an intelligent system of water storage and distribution. He has bean through all the arid region of the United States. The arguments for irrl gation which its advocates present will ap- peal to him with force. The advantage of irrigation, directly to the region imme dintely concerned and indirectly to the coun- try at large, is #0 great that it ought receive the earnest attention of the country, to the far western states for the adoption of The Irrigation Movement Louls Globe-Democrat Any plan which will materially add to the productiveness of the arid reglon covering part of half a dozen states will largely con- tribute to the population, wealth and pro perity of the country But the friends of irrigation ought te understand at the outset that they will meet with much opposition. A heavy vote will be cast against it by New England and the old middle states. Part of the south i« apathetic and part of it is hostile. Some votes will be cast against it by the middle west. Tt will run against big obstacles The president's favor for it will count for much, but this will not necessarily bring success. A campaign of edtication on that Issue should be stArted and should be kept up until & favorable result is brought. At present the government's income largely exceeds its outgo. The money for a wisely planned system of Irrigation at national expense—and that is the only practicable way that frrigation can ever be had on a large scale—can be spared now, but may not be available after another cut In tax- ation {s made. The irrigation matter should be presented to congress right at the opening of the seasion DISCUSS FUTURE OF FUSION Hastings Tribune (rep.): The Omaha Beo has felt the pulse of fusionism in Ne- braska and finds it somewhat weak and on the decline. Several of the populist and democratic leaders expressed themselves in regard to the future of fusion in this state and according to thelr own state- ments they don't know where they're “at." Sidney Republican: The process of dis integration is now at work within the fu- slon ranks in Nebraska. The vagaries of Bryanism no longer bewitch those repub- licans who were wont to stray from the fold. They are coming back very rapidly and congratulate themselves that they and the country have escaped populistic heresi Nelson Herald (pop.): A fusion that doesn’t fuse is a failure and as far as we are concerned we will have no more of it When the populist parly once more willing to stand or fall on its merits then 1t will rise from the ashes of fusion to be the real friend of the people, When, regardless of office, it stands for principle and ceases to cater fo the other fellow, be he democrat or republican, then and not until then will victory perch upon our ban- ners. Beatrice Democrat: The World-Herald 1s of opinion the conventions made a mistake in not nominating a populist for supreme judge and two populists for re- gents. It reaches this conclusian after seelng the manner in which the populist counties broke over nto the republican camp. So long as democrats supported the populists and asked nothing but the privilege of voting for them fusion fused, but when the democrats asked a place upon the ticket fusion fizzled. Grand Island Free Press (pop.): As to the future of fusion, so far as it concerns the populists, we entertain no hesitancy in saying that it amounts to but little whether there Is fusion or no fusfon. So long as the populists maintain their organization as a party aud as long as Bryan democracy ad- heres to the Chicago and St. Louis plat- forms no power can prevent fusfon. In the event that the populists disband as a party organization then the individual will vote with either of the two great parties that advocates the reforms which he believes will best conserve the commonwealth. With populists the lssue above all fssues is, Shall the classes or the masses rale? and as long as the democrats stand pat on on this important fssue the populists, whether through organized effort or individual voli- tion, will always prove a faithful ally, The mission of the populist party was waged for the purpose of correcting the wrongs in the corrupt old parties and the work already accomplished is not to be ashamed of Holdrege Progress (rep.): So far as the populist party is concerned as a political organization there appears scarcely enough of it left to talk about, while eastern and western democracy do no ssimilate. The eastern element, dominated by David Hill and the Whitney stripe, is almost as for- elgn to the Bryan element as Bryan de- mocracy is to republicanism. A union of the two elements, therefore, contemplates a compromise on the part of B n and his tollowers tantamount to the abandonment of the cardinal principles of the Bryan wing. What Mr. Bryan will do in premises is still a4 matter of conjecture. What the populists will do, particularly the Nebraskans, in the present dilemma is also a much mooted question. The pepu- lists have come from both the republican and democratic parties and unless some new movement springs up it fs but reason- able to auticipate that a very large ma- jority will return to the party from which it came. No person will be presumptu- ous enough to say that the remnant of populism will go over to Bryan democracy in Its present condition. Plattsmouth Democrat: Under such ad- verse conditions it is mot surprising that the Interest of the democrats in fusion waned. The incentive always dangled be- fore their deluded visions was that they might elect a president with the vote of Nebraska, and, therefore, they should be good and take what the popullsts gave them. This did very well until the last vestige of electing the great Nebraskan to the White House fafled—then there was & determination upon the part of Nebraska democrats to assert their rights and a de- mand arose for a ticket that was demo- cratic, and not a confused mob of polit- fonl leeches, ready for any’ party which gave promise of office. When the democrats were compelled, in their convention this fall, to once again submit to a nauseous commingling of their party with the pop- ulists this demand for a popufar demo- cratic ticket was carried into effect. True democrats stayed from the polls in such numbers that the republicans won, and won, too, in the face of a disgraceful record. This was one offect of fusion and it is per- tinent ask, Is fusion in Nebraska a failure? The facts show that fusion has failed in Nebraska. And what bas oc- curred fn Nebraska has taken place in every other state in the central west. South Dakota fell away from victory before Ne- braska 4id, Kansas returned to republican- ism before Nebraska repudiated fusion, Ore- gon is again in the republican column, de spite fusion, and even in Colorado, wher the silver issue had its home, there are signs which poift the way to a defeat of fusion. Schuyler Quill (pop.): Thuse ideas as ex- pressed by the leading politiclans of the state probably volce the sentiments of a large number of democrats and populisis Three of the mumber deelare in favor of fusion, while the fourth, Edgar Howard, says he believes there is no longer any oc- caslon for fusion and that the popullsts will join the democratic party. There are some populists who will do so, but there are others who will never be democrats or republicans and should the populist party cease to exist they will still continue to be independent voters and will vote for the best men regardless of party. One of the things whici tead (o keep populists out of the democratic party is the arrogance of some of the party leaders. The populists are ludependent thinkers and will brook no to 1 the | Ihterference at the hands of the elf-ap- pointed leaders of other partiss. There i no disputing the fact that thera are demo. crats who have no use whatever for popu- lists only as they can wse them to further their selfish ends, Then there are wholo- souled democrats with whom 1t is a pleasure to afiliate and if thews Iatter are to diotate the policles of the party we predict that many populists will join them. Already some of our leading popullsts are leanjug toward the democrats, while others have gone back to the republican party. The Quill believes with Brother Howard that there is no longer any valid excuse for fu- sion, but belleves that the populists will not rush into the democratic party in any great numbers until they know which branch of democracy is to rule in the mext national convention. ROUND ABOUT NBW YORK. Riy n the Carrent of Life in ¢ Me: . op. There was & hot time in one house in Brooklyn. It was a social function. n euchre party given by Mrs. Harriet Burton an artist, which was attended by 300 women. Everything was “just lovely” until the windup, when there was a mixup rival ing & rlot at a bargain counter. At the close of the party uearly the entire 300 moved in a body on the cloakroom. The attendant inside the booth was a stout woman of color. The first of the players to reach the booth was a tall, woman, who carried under her arm a big sofa pillow, on which there appeared an embroldered capid, a prize she had won. My hat and coat, please.” she sald, with A frigid stare at the colored woman. Where's yo' check?” asked the attend- ant, mildly. “Check?" returned the woman with the sofa pillow. “What do I want with a check? 1 want my hat and coat. There they are, up in that corner box." Ah can’t give yo' no hat wifout yo show yo' check,” protested the attendant. Just then something like twenty-seven other women pushed forward together from the rear and asked for their wraps aod hats. All talked freely, but none showed & check. “This is an'outrage. 1 shall not submit to 1t.” declared a stout, florid woman, wav- ing her arms wildly. There was a general indorsement of this sentiment and all looked at the colored woman as it they fell she was holding thelr wraps for ransom. “Ah can’t give out mot hats wifout no checks,” repeated the attendant, waxing in- dignant, “’'Pears mighty strange yo' ain't gol no checks. Ah give ‘em ter yo' mahselt.” Then a brilliant {dea struck a number of the women simultaneously. As they { couldn’t get their hats without checks, they would go downstairs and bunt for the checks. This they did. Nearly every woman pounced on the first check she saw lying on the floor of the hall and with a little screnm of triumph hurried back upstairs with it 1o the cloakroom. “Here, 1 have a check.” sald the first of these to get back 1o the room, handing in & bit of pasteboard into the colored woman in the booth. “Now give me my things." The harassed and indignant attendant quickly ¢hoved out the hat and coat which the check called for and the woman who received them, without looking at them, Jtripped wway happily (o put them on. Then {all the women who had gone downstairs and picked up checks handed fn the bits of pasteboard and got the things the called for. It took much patience and an (hour of hard work to straighten out the { tangle. he daughter of one of the richest resi- dents of Montclair, N. J. and once a noted belle, was a prisoner in the first pre- cincy court of Newark charged with ‘being a professional beggar. With her, also under arrest and charged with the same oftense, was her husband, Joseph L. Farnesham who, although carefully dressed with an obvious attempt at style, showed in his face deep lines, ‘which told of care and privation, “I did beg. oner, meeting Judge Lambert's gaze with- out flinching. “I did it for this dear &irl's sake, to give her food and shelter. Gladly would T have worked, but I could find noth- ing to do.” had reached the court gnd notified the judge of their willingness to provide for ber. So the charge against Mrs. Farnesham w not pressed, while the husband was sen- tenced to thirty days in jail No sooner had the judge aonounced this decision than the loyal wife sprang for- ward, crying “If my husband is guilty, I begging be a crime, then I am gulity, too.” She insisted on going to jail with her hus- band and was carried away only when ex- hausted and fainting Standing on Brooklyn bridge at dusk and gazing over the scrapers, towers and spires of Manhattan, filled with exuberant joy, a writer on the New York Sun made these outbursts Whatever is extravagant or ugly architecture of the tall structures massed upon Manhattan island from Chambers street to the Battery is \ost in the dusk of evening. and the most modern of cities seems almost mediaeval Iin suggestion. The high twinkling lights in 10,000 win- dows are not to prolong the labors of be- lated clerks, but to grace the festivities of dame and cavalier, for the vasi Qiaeval city of the November gloaming is peopled with appropriate Inhabitants, enough knights and ladles, squires and dames, tinseled rogues and raplered brag- garts, strutting lords and cringing lackeys to furnish characters for a thousand ro- mances of the modern historical school Behind this mount of marble, with its hundred spires, slowly fade the stormy splendors of the supset at the end of a gray November day. The waters of the river, alternately dun and crimson, as they reflect the varylng colors of the sky, scow | | angular | your honor.” sald the pris- ! Meanwhile the parents of the young wife | in the | writ all over with the romance of thors high and peopled walls, Not even tho floating steam oraft can break the spell of mediaevalism, for the eye rejects evory fnconsistency and an Achronfsm of the scens and refuses to ho undeceived. A Iittle convoy of dingy white oyeter sloops, ducking and dancing behind A tiny tug, may stand for any sort of eraft belonging to an earlier time, The bread #all of a lumbering sand sloop, & shapeless thing of sofl and patches, seems eontem- porary with the earliest youth of Celumbus A8 the tranced watcher catches in the half light, now a steel cordage of tha bridge, now the gothlc curve of an enornious arch it is gigantic ship, or & vaat cathedral and the roar of motor machinery s the sound of the wind through the riggiag, or of an organ mightler than any that aver breathed over kneeling muititudes. Beyoud the dim gray majesty of the gothlc tower stretches the vast Bast Sids of the city, along the water front glowing with great splashes of light {nland suffused with mingled gloom and brightness and punctuated with brilllant eparks. A wild and momentarily glooming sky, suggestive in its dim aspect of {ts nelghbor, the vas' sea. spreads over all Dimly seen through the palpable duel that hovers over the river to the northwari in the ribbed and slatted ghost of the grea bridge, whose spectral towers and dim-seco cordage give the last touch of unreality to the scene, and seem to set the seal of au thenticity upon the wildest confectures of imagination Along the Bowoery are dosens of windows where are displaved unredeemed pladges, trinkets o valuables that have strayed from all quarters into these eddies of com merce. Sometimes & melancholy intarast attaches 1o these things, says the New Yorl Tribune, but the pawnbroker is a fos 1o melancholy. Therefore he puts humoreus placards upon his wares, to catch the eye | and evoke a smile, for a good bumored may is & better customer than a gloomy one One window displays a cobwebbed skull bearing a placard that says: “There are 1,000 skulls in existence said to be Olive: Cromwell's. This i3 not one of them. Wo never misrepresont.” Further along a skull ls displayed which | 1s sald to have belonged to “Pliny, who body was entirely consumed fn Vesuylus A large legbone fs advertised as “Good enough to do for you if ever yours is broken." Watches give the Bowery humorist a splendid fleld. One of them bears a ticket bidding the passer “Buy me if you haven't time." Another confesses that “Slow horses aid this—made him pawn me for $25." One watch aske, boldly, “Don’t you lke my face?’ whila another, closed, rays, “i am ashamed to be here; take me away! A pretentious notiee points out that “This watch has three hands, and the third is the second hand!" A stop watch s sald to bave been used in “timing the Great Human Race." On a bottle of snakes is hung this solemn warning, “Don’t look at me, if drunk, for you will certainly see things." A dealer declares his honesty thus, “This l00ks like a thousand-dollar bill, but T mad« it myself; I never misrepresent,” but hr casts discredit on the statement by display ing some apple seeds which he declares “‘be longed to the notorioys apple that got Eve into trouble.” PERSONAL AND OTHERW A Missouri school teacher recently whaled a bunch of bis pupile. The bovs retaliatec and Missouri ts short one teacher. Evidence taken at Washington goes show that Colonel Meade's Jags were wonder and admiration of the service. A New York woman, i an application for divorce, charges her husband with eriel and unusual punishment, to-wit: steallug her false teeth News comes {rom Washinglon intimating that President Roosevell's first message contains 28,000 words, or about seventeen newspaper columns. Lord, how loug! State wardens of Maine have probibited fshing unttl next June in Lake Chargogea- goggmanchang, eic. The rest of the name 18 owitted out of respect for the exiles of Maine. A papier-mache reprosentation of a corpae 18 to be exhibited at the Bonine trinl at Washington. The prosecution must be shy on evidence when it resorts fo gruesome theatrical effects Sir Henry Strong will act as adminis- trator of the Dominfon of Canada during the absence of Lord Minto, the goyernor gemeral. This is the first time a Canadlan ha werved in this capacity o republican aftorney general of Ken- who did not appeal his case agalnat mocratic opponent until the court, of appeals was of his political complexion manifested keen appreciation of the higher 1deals of government. to the | | ASHES OF FUN Cleveland Plain Deale women who attend t show will be docoltay.’ “I suppose the horses will be decoltay, too?" “No, they will be decoltish,” T sea that the w York horse Chicago Post: “She's such a matter-of- fact, businessiike voung woman that I'm surprised she married him. He's not very rich." “No: but he's very old and he carries u blg life insurance.” Somerville love you that faults, She (tearfully) —1f you veally you wouldn't think I'h yurnal: He--It in hacause | call your attention to your loved me | d any taults, Detrolt Froe Press: “When the lectirer made a grammatical orror it brought down wald Miss Gurle think the house hid been well up,” commented Mrs. Gurley, don't brought gravely, Philadelphia Pross But, T your shopping I8 extravagant.” tested: ‘“vou should never tuke Just because it looks cheap.” tall vou, he pro: a thing “Indeed,” sald the extravagant yeuns wife, “if T had followed that wdvice W‘\ l You proposed to mo I never would have taken you.” Washington Star: “Doesn’t it make 3 nervous to hear your husband constantly Complaining about the way political aftairs are managed?” “No." answered the tired-looking woman “It'w i rellef to have him complain ab politics. 1t takes his mind off the meals. THE UPSTREAM ¥ Baltimore Amerfcan IUs easy when you're drifting with current down the stream, ‘When the oars are shipped beside you and the laughing tipples gleam When thera's nuught to do. but idle fn the cushioned seat and bask In the huppy, glowing sunshine, while the water does the tusk. But_there comes a sudden waking to the fanc nd the dream | Wi Josh Wink in the hen the time arrives that somoions has to—pull against the stream, | The fellow who's contented while the eur- rent bears him on Finds that every mile he travels shows o wished-for hiven gono; Finds the water bears him softly whera the walting chances lle, unless he does some rowing it awiftly bear him by; Finds that down the atream the niches that ho looks for all are full, And that if he'd seek the right one he must turn about and pull, wihil But 1t ensy-vory easy-—just to fioat along and dre Yet the man sometime discovers that he cannot float up stream. And he learns, too, that the world s full of folks who il But the farther down the river there the current grows more swift; And he also learns i sorrow that suces 1ul ones would seem To have no use for ihe fellow who wilh LeVer FOW Up siream,