Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 28, 1901, Page 6

(J THE OMAHWA DA ILY EE: THURSDAY, N o OVEMBER THE ©MAHA DAILY BEE. E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING TERMS OF 8UBSCRIPTION: Daily Bee (without 8 fially Bee and Sunda lustrated Bee One ¥ gunday Beo, One Year aturday Bee, One Year Twentieth Century Farmer, One Year DELIVERED BY CARRIER Bee (without Sunday) per copy Dally Bee (without Sunday), per weel .12c Dafly Bee (ncluding Sunday), per week.lic Sunday Bee, per copy . be Evening Bee, without Sunday, per week.10c Evening Bee, including Sun: week . v vapeiy Complaints of frregularities in delivery should be addressed to City Circulation De- partment One Year.$6.00 | 2.00 Sunday) y, OAe car ¥ i i » Daily | OFFICES Omaha—The Bee Bullding. th Omaha — City Twenty-Afth and M Streets Councll Bluffs-10 Pear| Street icago—160 Unity Buflding. New York—Temple Court Washington—601 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE Communications relating to news and edi torial matter should be addressed: Omaha Bee, Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS Business letters and remittances should be addressed: The Bee Publishing Compapy, Omaha, REMITTANCES Remit by draft, express or postal order, ble to The Hee Publishing Company 2-cont stampa accepted in payment of Counte. Bersonal checks. excopt on or eastern exchanges, not aceepted BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY Hall Bullding, STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION, Biate of Nepraska, Douglas County, ss.: Greorge B, Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Pubiishing Company; being duly sworn, #ays that the actual number of full and omplets coples of The Dally, Merning, Evening and Sunday Bee prinied during the month of October, 1901, was as follow ... 89,100 2M,500 20,020 I 20 0,470 29,065 28,4 28,080 28,050 Total ssssennd $eoss Lees unsold and returned coples.. Net total sales 07,407 Net dally avorage . QEORGE B. T: Subscribed n my presence and sworn to before me this dlst day of October, A, 1901 M. B. HUNGATE, (Seal.) Notary Publie _—m Be thankful and you may be happy. Perhaps the only way out is to enlarge the police commission &0 as o accommo- late all the raflroads, 1t would take too long to give even | partial list of all the things for which Omaha s called on to render thanks this year. Em——— The new military Instructor at the University of Nebraska is named Smoke. An officer with that name belongs on the firing line. Our Dave has finally reached dry land and every loyal Nebraskan has double cause to be thankful on the day wet apart for general thanksgiving. —— A French scientist asserts that aleohol | will'be the fuel of the future. When the time arrives plenty of people should have an ample supply s « away, Kansas complains of another water famine. But Kansas Is supposed to be | n ‘prohibition state and a shortage of water ought not to create any hardship. Henry Fournie man, says he thirty seconds. pating an ascension route. the automobile racing | xpects to make a mile in Wonder if he is anticl- by the explosion It this thing keeps on Omalia will | have so many new freight depots offered | to it that it will have to exchange its Christmas stocking for the next size larger. s _— The battleship Missourl 1s to be| launched next month. If the plans of its designers work out it will be able | to show Inquiring visitors on its own wecount should oceasion requir Many men who have called on Presi dent Roosevelt have discovered that he is the most approachable man who has occupled the executive chair for many years.: The president, howe lhas mind of his own. Kansas democrats and populists arve | also discussing the question of fusion or mo fusion. Of late years fusion in Kansas Las been most prolific of cuss- ing, and future campaigns on that line are not enthusiastically endorsed. Carrie Nation answers her hushand's petition for divorce by asserting that David was too | 10 get up in the morning and build a fire. Probably Carrle made it so hot for him he did not realize the necesslty of having a tire, ———— is always something to The late democratic can didate for governor of lowa may be thankful that he is not compelled to kick every wan in the state who refused | to vote for him, but can rest on the record of one editor booted, Ther thanktul fo The redoubtable W, Shoemaker wants It distinctly understood that he is not for David B, Hill to head the next | democratic presidential ticket in its for lorn hope, but for Tom L. Johnsou. Now let every good democrat of Ne- braska take off his cout for Johuson, The Colomblan government has cided it will no longer speak to Vene- zuela and bas withdrawn its diplomatic representative to that country. Better call fn the big brother from the north to arbitrate their differences, for each has troubles enough already without raising up additional ones, A prominent New Yorker has brought suit against two former friends, claim ing $100,000 damages because they ae cused him of cheating ut cards. In the good old days in the western country man accused of cheating at cards did nmot bring any damage suits, Al 1 a | Cuban sugar and tobs THANKSGIVING DAY Ihanksgiving proclamations have appropriately referred national sorrow. The death wnd good president of the afftiction from has not yet fully recovered people still monrn President Me But he would not have wished interfere with the usual ol and enjoyi the festivities usual to this und it should wnot If we 1 event, may we not find in McKin ley's noble example of Christian for tude and faith, fu the face of death canuse for thankfulness? Is it not some thing to be thankful for that he gave to the world as splendid an example of how a good and great man can die g I8 to be found in human history? As was said by President in his proclamation, no people on earth have such abundant canse for thanks giving a& we have » nation hayg 8o greatly blessed with those things which make for the hetterment and the uplifting of mankind We have had during the yenr a high degree of pros perity. The people have been well em ployed, all interests have made prog ross, our material power hag been greatly increased, are a nation stronger in all respects than ever be fore. Nor is there reason to doubt that we have advanced morally and intel lectually. Surely no people have more abundant cause for thanksgiving than the Ameriean people, who have not only I they need for their own comfort and enjoyment, but to spare for less favored peonles, all, then, away dull eare observe the day with cheerful teful heart The this to the gr the g republic w the The Kinley this to Servan vear of it which an coun the proper it oceaxion A has been we as e Let m WA gr THE ARMY OF CITIZEN SOLDIERY An imporiant recommendation i the annual report of the secretary of war, to which congress will doubtless give attention, relates to the militia and to the ralking of volunteer forces, Sec retary Root says that the militin law tands toduy practically as it was en- acted In 1792 and is practically obsolete, and he suggests that now exercise the power conferred upon it by the constitution to provide for organizing, arming and diseiplining the militia. He points out what he thinks | desirable to be done and says that as the rellance of the country for th large forces necessary in modern war- fare mist bo chiefly upon volunteers, the method and procedure of raising volunteer forees should be prescribed in advan “so that instead of waiting to devise plans for a volunteer army until the excitenent and haste of impendin, perfecticn of design diffi- wisfactory exeeution fmpos- sible, FeY will have but to direct the execution of a well-understood plan by officers each one of whom has long been famillar with the part he is to play.”” The secretary says that careful selection is impossible at the outbreak of a war, while it is entively Impractica- ble in time of peace. The recommendations of Secretary Root respecting the National guard are eminently practical and we can see no objection whatever to them. They e template & conslderable expenditure by the general government, but there is no doubt this would be justitied by results, The National guard of the several states would be made always and fmmediately available for such service as it may be called upon by the federal government to perform and in fact would constitute a standing arm; r ready for what ever emergency might avise, The sec- retary of war has evidently en this matter ul consideration and his recommendations deserve the ear nest attention of congre congress should make and r enlt « most e ROOT O CUBAN RECIPE Becreta tlon of re no surp stood that Root's position on the ques procity with Cuba will caus 1t was already he favored concessions o and doubtless he is in accord with the president. The argument of the secretary of war is the familiar one that the prosperity of Cuba depends upon finding a market tor her principal products at a reasonable profit and that under existing conditions she can find such a market only in the United State But in order that she may have this market and sell her prin- cipal products at a living profit to the producer, the American taviff on products must be reduced How wmuch of a reduction will be necossary to give the sugar and tobaceo growers of Cubu a living profit? That is a questlon which of course Secre Root does not consider. It or determination of congress, The Cubans, it iy needless to say, desi ket for thelr prineipal products, though they will perhaps be satisied at present with nominal duties, The Sugar wants free trade b ise it knows that this would destroy the domestle sugar industry and give the trust absolute control of the American market, Fall ing to secure the free admission of sugar the trust will undoubtedly exert itself to have the duties made merely nominal, sluce even that would give 1t a material advantage. It is & very serious question as to how far we can go In tariff Cuban sugar and tobacco Jury and perhaps disaste industries, These claim (o need for thelr further development all the pro tection they now have. best qualiied to spenk in their behalf say and there cannot be a reasonable donbt about it—that the free admission of Cuban products would destroy these in dustries, while a vomiual tariff would endanger their existence. retary Root thinks that liberal reciprocity arrangement with Cuba would tribute more to our prosperity than the portion of our present duties which we would be required to concede, This by no means certain, It is quite possi ble to exnggerate the value of the Cuban market for Amerlean products, Un doubtedly the island will in thwe he developed far beyond what it at present and with prosperity there will be a large demand for our manufactures and such things as Cuba does not pro concesslons to without in 1o our howe Those " rematned to be done was for his friends Lo settle with the undertaker, lq\m‘d by sacriiclug lwportant howe in. au But if this trade must be ae Roosevelt | “drive | | well under- | those | s u free mar | trust | dustries that are giving employment to A large amount of capltal and labor | one ¢ f which industry lieved developed i e #hat will supply the bome demand sugar, thus keep ing people the $100, paid foreign it ostly price for Cuban trade, extremely probable that will make tarift products. The influences of this stronger thuu | in opposition and there is a quite gen | eral foeling that it fs the duty of this country to promote the spent and prosperity of Cuba. The primary | duty of the government, however, is to ward the Interests of its own people | and this should not be lost sight of in dealing with the question of Cuban reciprocity, e beet sugar it ds 1 can be to an| extent a few ye 1 mong onr own Loooom will e 1t gress Cuban favor W for sug N con o in those | concessions are it deve | safe A BAD PRECEDENT Es-Governor Furnas, as secretary of the Sta Board of Agrlculture, in an | Interview, glves his endorsement to the | proposed plan to provide for representa tion of Nebraska at the Louisiana Pur chase exposition at St. Louls in 1903 by a subscription fund raised under the as- surance of repayment by legislative ap propriation. Mr, Furnas cites a precedent the employment of the same method in making the Nebraska exhibit at the Cotton exposition In New Orleans in ISS5, e says at that time the neces sary expenses were insured by sollciting | of publicspirited men notes in small | sums, payable after the legislature had chance to make an appropriation to take them up. These notes were dis- counted at the banks and, together with a federnl grant of $5,000 and a loan of | $4,000 from the State Agricultural so- !‘ifl_\. brought a total of $20,000, which was afterward reimbursg | “My iden,” says Mr. 'urnas, “is that this plan can be worked again with good No man need be called upon 1 a larger note than he could give in cash, anyway, without hurting his bank account. Every county ought to be interested and then when the appro priation bill comes up you will find that every county will be interested In its passage. It will take not less than $50,000 to give Nebraska the showing it ought to have at this exposition.” The advocates of this method of fore stalling iegislative action mas find precedents for thelr proposals, but they are bad precedents and ought not to be followed, If such a plan could be worked successfully for defraying the expense of participating in an exposition it could be worked from time to time for all sorts of schemes, whose sponsors are afraid to risk king legislative sanction in advance. The idea of so- liciting subscriptions in every couuty in the state, with the special view of mort- gnging the votes of members of the leglslature to be chosen next year, is in- genlous, but it would certainly be a viclous practice and open the way for all sorts of treasury raids in the future. The Bee believes that Nebraska ought to participate officinlly in the 8t. Louis exposition and that a sufficient appro- priation should be made to insure credit- able representation. It believes that | the legislature should fix the amount which the state should expend and give legal authority to the commission ealle upon to undertake the work. It be | lieves the people of Nebraska would sup- port the legislature in a reasonable ap- propriation for this purpose, but It does | not believe they will countenance an unauthorized clalm against a future legislature for borrowed money e | pended by a commission without any | ofticial standing. | | | | as <8 And now we are told that the two op- posing railroad systems that are anxious | to coutrol the politics of Nebraska are | ! gling with Governor Savage to dic- | tate the appointment of Omaha's police commissioners when that “exclusive tip” materializes. It would alnly be | very landable for these great railroads to volunteer to take charge of our police ! partments aud assume the re- | sponsibility for our police government, | But why a police commissioner should belong to the Burlington or to the North- western will pass the comprehension of most people, The fire' and police de- partments constitute a branch of the municipal government and the people of the city to be governed should, i all vight and justice, be the only ones to be cousulted, through thefr duly elected offi- cers. The present police board takes its authority from the mayor and council, who have commissions directly from the citizens of Omaha, sealed by a majority | vote at the polls, and so far as we know no election has been held by which the people of Omaha have transferred thelr vights to any railroad manager. Al this, of course, on the supposition that the “exclusive tip” Is to be operative in due time, The Commerclal club has resolved to turn a cold shoulder to the advertising fakirs who perlodically work Omaha business men to a turn on advertising snap schemes that bring returns to the promoter ouly. It has been a constant source of wonder In the past how Omaba business men, who in other thtugs have a reputation for exercising shrewduess and business judgment, | could be led to bite on every cateh-penny device designed to touch the credulous | for cash contributions under pretense of giving their. establishments publicity in write-ups of Omaha, placards, blotting pads, time-tables, ote, cireulating no- | where and read by no one. The prinel- | pal advertisers of Omaha are entitled to lit for having learned the costly les | son of experience that the only advertis- | ing that brings thelr money's worth is that inserted from (uy to day in the newspaper that reaches the class of peo- ple from whom they draw their patrons and is carefully read i the home by [every member of the family. The | wasted on advertising fakirs in | Omala ench year would build up several i substantiul bank accounts \ — A couference of railway presidents ix held early next month in New York to discuss rvailvoad rates in the west, Possibly when it 1s over shippers in this section will discover the full sig- nificauce of the settiement of the differ. | | | money to be to tak | | the best ligh schools in the country | trial | Americans; ences which formerly existed between the magnates of the various systems, Some wmust be devised 1o pay dividends on the vast water injected fnto the punies scheme amount of stocks of these con Over 100 of th freshman in Northwestern university are compelled special instructions jn orthog phy, hecause they trance examinations in that these students ur class failed to pass the en branch, As graduates of it would appenr the much teuth in statements made in recent years about the i and spelling in schiools mostly is poor el A colored man whow a Missouri mob made a determined but unsuccessful ef: fort to Iynch has been acquitted by The people who made up the mob should not feel bad over being defeated i their effort, the three men on account of the saw now known to be innocent —_— And Fortunes Likewl Milwaukee Sentinel. Helresses will please note that there yet remain thirteen bachelor noblemen in Eng® land whoso castles are sadly in need of repair iehed erime Family Economy, Chieago News Congressman Smith of Illinols wants penny postage. Perhaps he feels that it fs too much of a burden to write to all the other Smiths at the present rate Generous to Non-Restdents, Chicago Record-Herald, Who says the trusts are unkind? them is going to sell coal to the ( for $1.50 a ton less than we have to pay. Of course this {5 just because the people over there can’t afford to go any higher. Spoiling Novel Theories, Kansas City Journal The Indian commissioner's idea that the Iudians should be compelled o support themselves like other people instead of bhe- ing a burden on the government hag long provailed in the west, but the Fenimore Cooper societies of New England will feel deeply indignant at the suggestion. One of rmans Political Detroft F n Press. 1f the United States is to dabble in world politica it would be wise for the State de- partment to revise the list of toasts before anybody connected with the diplomatic ma chinery consents to speak at a banquet. Outside of New York the guests can prob- ably content. themselves by drinking to the president of the United States, but if they must drink to Bdward VII in the metropo- lis it would be good politics to include the heads of other great European powers in the program of toasts. Tonsts. Fighting Ships and Baltimore Amerlcan It our fine war ships are to be sent to | Europe to such functions as coronations, to | show the European powers what we can do in the way of a navy, it seems only fitting that we should send men with those ships who fought in them and won the battles that have glven the United States such prominence in the eyes of the world as a fighting power. It does not seem quite the appropriate thing that they should be com- manded by bureau officials who saw the war only from the vantage point of office chairs. Sheltexing Timber Thieves. Philgdelphia Reeord, As' population presses farther and farther westward the ralding of public timbered land by greedy and lawless lumbermen be- comes more audaclous, widespread and dan- gerous to the public Interest. If unde- tected, the raiders secure rich booty with out cost; if haled before the courts, they | ern | [ make prompt settlement, under the shelter ra‘ed of an act passed more than twenty years | ago, which provides for immunity to timber thieves on payment of a beggarly acre for the timbered territory denuded. Thus a federal statute designed to prevent depredations ou public timbered lands bas become a shield and safeguard to premedi- tated robbery. It cannot be too soom re- pealed Springeld (Mas At the Aking ministration local offt ind placing direction of commis the governor of the Island legislature ridden b f Providence of and vested it in gove most insidious assaults America ve upon in enactments he ¢ ol of t 1 it in legisla departmen {of cities from the co hosen by the the appoin The a | numerous r exclualy by Rhode | which thoroughly | has now deprived the city control of police the state commission. Down fn Penneyl vania the governor has summarily removed | the chief executive of the city of Pittsburg who was placed in office by ernor only a short time ago, for political reasons. The arbitrary mce of Governor Stone is a logical sequence of the notorious ripper bill, passed by the las which legislated out of existenc | ors of Pittsburg, Allegheny and empowered the governor new executive officers, called the in their stead Without entering deeply of varlous cases of this characte sufficient to say that all of them the principle of home rule and are 1nde " slons state the sume gov legislature, the may- Scranton appoint recorder into the de it ois violate inde Assaults Upon Home Rule Republicar fensible from an that of absolutism. If it be desired to deprive the people of the ability as well as of the power govern themselves, no better way of procecding could be devieed than to withe Iraw from their control the adminisiration of affairs their own communities, 1f You wish to weaken the sense of moral re sponsibility in the people in matters of government, begin by depriving them of he control of their own police. Tt would be a very easy matteg to bring selt-rule in the great American fiunicipalities to utter fallure by pursuing this policy of state in terference in municipal government logical end Every of (hese Dblows municipal self-government are stabs democracy There was a protesiant against the passago of the Providence police commission bill who sald that self-government was worth more in (he long run than temporary good government. He was right. As a matter of fact, in pr the Interference by state legislatures In municipal adminisira- ton is generally dictated by the desire of party for increased political power and he net result is neither good govern ment mor self-government tandpoint excep in o to 1is one at bosses VICIOUS PASS SYSTEW, in Principle an in Hoth ¥ erniclons Practice, Chicago Record-Herald Among the most persistent seekers after passes are politicians of every grade. After A brief novitiate they expect to travel fr on every kind of conveyance and their at titudo toward the railroads s that of black mallers. If they do not propc favors with favors their pass { e to return s are merely the price that is pald to keep them silent A positive betrayal of the public, they are in congres Whether in state legislatures, In | eity councils or in any other department of the public service it {s detrimental to the publie good that they should receive such consideration and fncompatible with a nice sense of personal honor. A very large percentage of pass seekers other than politiclans may be regarded simply as revenue destroyers. Many of them are abundantly able to pay their fares; many more would not travel at all if they could not travel free, and they add to the expensos of the service by their increase of the deadhead business. The influences back of such people are various, but they are seldom commendable. Many of the favors granted are purely personal and the rail- roads get nothing out of them at all. They are secured sometimes by persistent brazen solicitation, to the immense annoyance of officials and others. But the fact of greatest importance is that the abolition which weuld abate this nulsance would enable the corporations to deal with the whole people more honestly and fairly. The policy means a great re form, which should be of as much value to the public us some great political reform. ——e e A SKY-SCRAPING INVASION, Americ Architectural Wonders Give London a Shock. Milwaukee Sentinel. The application of an Anglo-American | syndicate to the London county council for | a 099 years' lease of a site in the Strand for the erection of an office building on American lines has stirred up a rumpus that is amusing enough from the American standpoint. Conservative opinion, of th ultra and moss-grown varlety, is disposed to resent the proposal as a theatrical dese- cration and disfigurement of London's an- | clent thoroughfare. In the front rank of the opposition atands that stanch tory Willlam Waldorf Astor, who has set his face sternly against the rising tide of Yan kee invasion. Mr. Astor's fate Is a curfous one. The things American that he expatri himself to evade are following him like Nemesis, and now the “vulgar’ sky scraper 1s to rear its head In the stree hallowed by the memory of Walton and Dr. Johnson. Against this profanation Mr. As- tor protests in the columns of his true blue conservative magazine. Mr. Astor’'s feelings are not, it seems, | shared by the business men of London generally. Even the Times protests against the ¢ War, | Army and Navy Jofirnal | The muster rolls of the union armics of | the rebellion show that out of 2,000,000, in | round numbers, three-fourths were mative | rmany furnished 175,000; Tre- land, 150,000; England, 50,000; British America, 50,000, and other coun- | tries, 75,000; in all about 500,000 foreigners; 48 per cent of our soldiers were farmers, 27 per cent mechanics, 16 per cent labor- ers, 5 per cent professional men and 4 per cent were of miiscellaneous vocations, The verage helght of our soldiers was 5 feel 8% inches, including the large number of recruits from 17 to 20 years of age. Out of about 1,000,000 men whose heights were recorded there were 3,613 over G feet 3 inches and some over 7 feet. WE Washington 8 How times are changed in the matter of men's fortunes! Tuesday plght a dinner was given by the New York Chamber of Commerce, attended by probably the largest aggregacion of plutocrats the world knows. Thirty-three of those present, according to one estimate, own an aggregate of no less than $1,403,000,000, an average of something over $42,000,000 aplece. Of course much al lowance must be made for the fat round figure in which it is customary nowadays to speak of certaln men's fortunes. Prob ably no one outside of his own intimate clrcle knows with certainty, for Instance, how much J. Plerpont Morgan Is worth. He is set down in the list under consideration at $400,000,000. It Is easy to add or subtract a hundred million In this range. Just with D. 0. Mills, who is accredited with $20,000,000. Five million more or less is a triflo the computer for such a purpose would not care to dispute. Such fortunes are ordinarily stated, therefore, in multiples of five millions. One conspicuous exception to this rule occurs in the case of Chauncey M. Depew, who Is credited with a trifle of $8,000,000. It is a matter for wonder why the compiler was not generous with him, glving him an even $10,000,000. The fact is that these Indlvidual holdings us- ptible of serous fluctuations. Composed as they are largely of investments, and esti- mated upou the basis of the market value and the earning capacity of certain stocks they may shrink or swell by a million apiece in the course twenty-four hours. Of course the bulk of some of these fortunes takes the form of real estate, which Is sus- ptible of less frequent and marke changes of value, and these are estimated with comparative accuracy. Men's Ith was more easily calculated in past years when the aggregates seldom touched the hundred thousand point, Then the items of property were more distinet, so many acre of we “muddling along with timid extensions of | methods essentlally’ antiquated,” and de clares in favor of the American Invasion as the thing needed to give English ideas the | requisite fillip What with American hotels, “lifts,” tele- | phones, electric lighting and traction, efe London seems to be yielding to transatian- tic influence in every direction. A Chicago man is tunneling the city, the surface | traffic is belug absorbed by an American | company, and now an Anglo-American syn- Qicate is bidding for choice sites for the erection of sky-scrapers. London's low sky-line, formed by Its thousands of two- story and three-story bulldings, will be | rudely broken by these towering structures, | and the effect will not be grateful from the aesthetic viewpoint. The sky-scraper Is not architecturally a thing of beauty, but it is undoubtedly thing of ut.lity and con- venlence, of ample space, light and ventila- tion, and Mr. Astor's protests are not likely to count heavily against it At her coronation next June Quee Alex- andra will wear the crown worn by Mary of Modena, the consort of James 11 In Boston 15,00 women have already registered to vote for schoel officers this year, a gain of §,054 over last year. The sea serpent has been vindicated of- ficially and evidences of his liviog, breath- ing. spouting reality are duly recorded in the government archives in Washington. Who can longer doubt now? Captain Ernest Goldschmidt, who was re- cently mentioned as deserving of praise for distinguished service in the South African war, 18 a son of Jenny Lind, the once fa- mous vocalist. He belongs to a Welsh regi- ment In a West Chicago street railway damage case u verdict of $36,000 has just been | 1 It they do the passes are the price paid for | ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK, en on the Curres Metropol Rip of Life in the All the human and equine swells of Gotham were boxed or paraded at Madison Square Garden last week. In theory as well [ 4% n fact the affair was a horse show, but the borse was completely overshadowed by the outpouring of society In its best clothes For every line in print devoted to the four footed thoroughbreds a dozen lines were &iven to the details of the people who were there and the costumes worn. The attend ANCo average 3,000 a day more than a year ago and the closing day called out a throng exceeding the biggest previous day In horse show history. In a letter 10 the Boston Globe Joe Howard comments on the affalr Headaches, heartaches, jealousies and all manner of human development are the normal outcome of a week of strife, as | to whose gown was the handsomest, who drove best and whose money bought the finest team. To men and women whose bump of humor s well developed the horse {and frock show is almost as funny as the opera house digplay or the church faxhions. That toadylsm should hav. arena s natural. ‘Money makes the mare ®0," says the old adage, but it also makes | the horse show. A queer idea reigns here- | abouts, to the cffect that the possession of | much money carries with it & corresponding knowledge of horseflesh. The owning of many horses is the fad of the hour. Sev eral men of large wealth, generally those who bave inherited it, find great pleasure in seeing their pictures in the papers as turf patrons.’ They love to read of the princely prices they pay for the best, the fastest and the most noted horses. So far, %004, but who under heaven would go to any one of them for intelligent direction in sale or purchase. They know mothing, are laughed at by men who do, are vietimized time and agaln, but, for all that, really and seriously regard themselves horsemen and set the pace for other fools with more cash than experience in prices and general race track accomplishment. Brooklyn now revels in the distinction of possessing the second tabloid restaurant ever established. The first began its career In Manhattan a few weeks ago. A tabloid restaurant, it should be understood, is a restaurant where food s served in con- densed form—where the person may take a square meal in a lozenge that may be swal- lowed at a single gulp. Or he can have hie dinner In a capsule, it he prefers it that way. But most patrons prefer their food lozenges diluted with water—so it will last longer, perhaps The tabloid restaurant was made possi- ble by the recent invention of compressed foods a few years ago. Compressed foods were supposed to be desirable only as an emergency ration, but some enterprising in- dividual found that the compressed foods would appeal to a certain portion of the public even where there was an abundance of restaurants of the ordinary type. Hence the tabloid restanrant. The place s on fulton street, almost directly opposite the bridge entrance. One of the most remarkable dinners in the history of swelldom wus given at Del- monico’s recently by George Heye, a Lroadway business man. For the pleasure of cntertaining nine guests for three hours he transformed one of the dining rooms Into a miniature bower in a pine forest and spread before them a repast which cost him, according to the New York Her- ald, not less than $100 for each of the ten covers laid. Hundreds of pine boughs had been brought from the wopds and these were so adjusted upon the walls, cellings and floor of the apartment as to completely conceal their original character. Invigible wires were wiretched through them and connected with hundreds of small incandescent electric light globes, which peeped out from the green boughs on walls and celling. Each globe was shaped like an orchid and shone with & pale green full swing i the | leaves, in all their rich low and gray A round (able, eight feet in diameter made of unfinished oak, rose from the litter of moss and leaves, and \ts Atout legs wors completely covesed with green and gray moss Ranged around table the chairs, each of which, espectally built this oceasion, was made of biack bi boughs, fashioned in varied rustic designs and with the bark left on the surface. The center of the tablo was a mound of maidenhalr fern, moss and leaves in thelr autumnal tinte. Twenty or (hirty electric globes like those peeping from (he walls were arranged among the ferns and mosses in the center of the table, and fn front of each cover was a cluster of thirty of the rarest of natural green orchide that | the hothouses of New York could supply. There was no other illumination of the room than (hat furnished by the green globes of the small electric lights, and the effect was like that of twillght In a pine forest. Indeed, the observer might well have Imagined himself a guest of the ban fshed duke, partaking of his woodland hos pitality in the forest of Arden. The name cards for each guest were palated on oak leaves and the menus on squares of white birch bark ahout 1087 inches in size. The wines wero all of the | rarest and most expensive vintage TORPEDO BOA AT DIVES, the were ter fo onk Submarine Terrors Valunble as C Defenders, New York Werld Those are glowing reports that come from tho trial of the newest Holland submarine torpedo boat, the Fulton, which has just been held off Greemport, L. 1. Oficers of | the Japanese navy became enthustastic over | the boat and sald they would recommend it | for adoption at home. Lewis Nixon, de- slgner of battleships which are the pride of America, called the Httle destroyer “a steel fish with brains,” und expressed emphatic belief in the great usefulness of the Fulton A harbor defended by two such hoats could | not, he was sure, bo blockaded as was the | harbor at Santiago These expressions are strikingly at varl | ance with the snubbing of the submarine “terror” administered by Admiral O'Neill | In his recent report from the naval bureau | of ordnance. According to the admiral tha | battleship is still the thing, and for the mubmarine boat he sees usefulness only “'as | a scarecrow, for a while." | The truth probably iles between the en- | thusiasm at Greemport and the coldness ex- hibited by the admiral. Very evidently the ulton Is n good deal of a marvel, not only A to its diving and its under-water per- formances, but as to the nolselessness of its operation. It Is not at all unreasonable te | hold that boats of its type, as they gather | perfection, will become fmportant factors in comst defense. | MIRTHFUL REMARKS Detroit Free Pross: Tsahel apliment for vou, Trma Irma—Oh, what is ft? Somebody eaid I've a lovely that 1 look like Philadelphin Catholic Standard: Cassidy Fur a defeated candidate yo're lookin' un usual happy, I'm thinkin’, Commalsy-Falth, it makes me happy te think T won't hava to bother about anny of {he rash’ promises 1 made before elac: on. Washington Star: “Did you marry an fn- dustrious, hard-working i Cayenne *Yes, indeed,” sald the girl with the pi ture hat; “Harold i never idle. He pi golf all summer and whist all winter. May—But he loves n't he? Fay much, now. lately that he'd rather sit with me t He's gotten a0 in_the parlor an take me to the theater. Chicago Tribune: Buspicious Customar= Has this paper got the news of the latest revolution in Bouth America? Newsboy--1'1l be honest with you, mister. It's got all ‘ceptin’ what's broke out in the last fifteen minutes. Rrooklyn Life: Dashaway-—Well, old man, ald you make up with your hest ‘girl? Cleverton—Yes, but { thought "1 never would succeed In convineing her that T was wrong. ‘“f'emcher says that ‘hoom’ aaid the little one, Chicago Post: can’'t be compared," “Can 1t asked her mother. “Why, of course,” was the reply. Posl- tive, boom; comparative, boomer; super- lafite, boomeran.” “Correct,’ said her father promptly THANKSGIVING. This 1s the seaxon for ples and cake, Squash, cranberries, Belgian hare, Plum pudding boll and a fat turkey bake, Which often ends in a bad stomach ache Or a horrible old nightmare, When our thoughts revert to the lambent flame In the base burner’'s steady fire, When the rooters root at the foot ball game And automoblles run to earth and maim Mortalw left from the dread live wire, “Iis the time we lament for a blasted crop That has come of a dry, off year, When the organist pulls a walling' stop, When the singer's song makes tho eyeiash rop And starts an emotional tear. “Tis the date sudden changs of heat and cold Develop a dry catarrh, When snow the hyacinths softly unfold And potatoes are worth thelr welght old While n ‘schooners” pass o'er the “bar.” When the poor realize thelr sad Aud thelr creditors try to dod; . When the power house turns on ite strong white 1ight, When men with'a thirst. who riot all night, Tell wives they have “been to the lodge."" ad plight light that lent reality to the semblance of | the rare woodland flower | “Over the crash that covered the floor had been strewn pine boughs, tangles of thick woodland, moss and bushels of autumn When pleasure and pain go hand-in-hand And tree leaves succumb to frost 'As some are singing of Beulah land The dry goods man at the same old stand Is selling at less than cost Kearney, Neb, D. B: CLARK. rendered for the loss of an arm. The plain- 1iff was a young surgeon with au income of $10,000 and a growing practice. It has taken five years to bring the case to a conclusion. The appointment by Mayor-Elect Low of orge L. Rives as corporation counsel of New York has elicited the information that he an M. A. of Cambridge university England, and as & member of its council has @ vote in electing the members of Parliament for that university Mr. P. H. Anderson, because he could not obtaln a cevtificate to teagh sehool In Kan- sas, went to Chicago, graduated from a training school for missionaries went to Alaska, foun a mine containing millions came back, married a classmate, gave a fortune to his alma mater and is now on his | way to Sweden to visit relatives he has never seen Edmond- About, the French novelist, was once asked to write a newspaper notice of a play written by a friend. The playwright begged him to discuss th acting and scenery, but to say lttle about the drama 15 of plantation land, so many slaves or ships or hogsheads of tobacco or bales of cotton or houses. With the invention of the rail road and the telegraph came changes which have led swittly to the almost unthinkable fortunes represented at that metropolitan feast, itself, which was evidently not proving much of a success. About did as requested told the plot at length and gave much detail as fo accessories, winding up with this sent Ahout midnight the curtain fell and with it the plece.” How are y Have you got all the necessities that Thanks- ving day demands to | foot ball game you will | gloves— ) you want to be approprig | | nothing e We close at 12 o'clo day. Rrowning R. S. Wilcox, Manage you stay at home and “carv ou fixed? wear. If you go to the want, maybe, a pair of > the turk” itely fixed—and if you go out to some one else’s house, a new style collar if Whatever you need we've got at about the price that will suit— and “No Clothing Fits Like Ours.” ck prompt Thanksgiving e 5@ Exclusive Clothiers and Furnishers. . tinte of scarlet, yel- " n