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THE OMAHA DAIL Y BEE: WEDNESDAY, THE ©MAHA DAILY BEE. ROSEWATER, EDITOR 1Y MORN CRIPTION Ye ARRIER per cop per we | revenue adh a be riment . I Th O aha ith | rteenth Street SPONDENCE. news and edi sed: Omaha | | iting t be addre ment LETTE 8 sh wdiressed ng Company Omaha REMITTANCES, draft r T 7 postal order Publishing Company ted 1n payment hecks, exce 1ot wee JOMPA i Remit by Only 2-ces v mail a Ver Omaha or eastern exchanges, THE BEE PUBLISHING TATEM CIRCULATION. of Nebraska, Douglas County, s8.: v 1. Taschiick, necretary of The Bee shing Company, being duly sworn, that the actual number of full and ete cople £ The Dally, Morning, ening and printed during lay Bee nth of ember, 1901, was as fol 16 o | 20,210 Total D21 s unsold and returned copies. ot total s t dally 1 § ‘(H‘" cribed In my pre me this 20th da. » M B TZSCHUCK. | nd_sworn to | ember, A. D. | HUNC otar. i w Carne n the wholesale plan —e « al Colby 18 another battle fssu Andre mas gifts Adjutant getting ready to fight and the call to arms s soon to b A for the muster of the state wilitia on the battle ground Em—— King Edw nation has fixed for Jun The eartl ever, may be expected to revolve u its axis on that eventful day just th has been 4 next how n | sume as any other day. The new Hay-Pauncefote treaty has so ¢ elicited the opposition of only two | or three democratic members of th ate. Th smoerats will probably vote | against ratitication simply from force of v That talk about abolishing the free piss must have been sprung too soon this year. It is likely to have worn it gelf out by the time the railway clerks | make up the new list of pasteb u’n]‘ holders, will .make its holiday ad- Journment extend over from December 19 to January Our national legisla tors do not propose to take any chances | on overworking themselves at this stage of thelr careers, —_— The United States treasury will again | rellove the suwrplus by anticipating Janu- | ary interest payments on outstanding | obligations. Just imagine any European | country paylug any of its bills before | payment was du Not content with congress as its star | uttraction, the city of Washington has | undertaken to give the country a series of sensational murder cases, The coun try would be glad to put up with con gress, 1t the murder trials were only cut out. Congress or Chicago undertakers are sald to be | promoting an undertaking to abolish Sunday funerals, To make the move- ment successful we would suggest that the community of Interest be enlarged to Include at least the doctors and the druggists in addition to the undertak- ers. The members of the Board of Review should remember that another board awill sit as & board of equalization to re- view thelr acts and that is the board composed of the taxpayers and voters of Omaha who pass upon the title of members of the city council when they come up for election, And pow mining experiment stations are proposed on the plan of our agricul- tural exepriment stations. Up to date private prospectors appear to have been pertectly capable of developing our mineral resources without outside as- sistunce, but perhaps a statlon for the noculation of gold fever germs might briug on a new flood of the yellow wetal, = Different members of congress seem to be climbing over oue another in their attempts to play upon rural free deliver as a means of making themselves solld with rural constituents. Rural free de- livery has exceeded all expectations in achleving popularity, but it was never intended to be a frec delivery of re- pominations and re-elections for con- gressmen indiscriminately With the advent of Judge Sedgwick to the supreme bench there will be a vacancy on the supreme court commis slon and a good deal of speculation Is belng Indulged in as to who will be his successor, In view of the fact that the supreme court docket has been cleared of the bulk of the accumulated cases it 18 a serious question whether a neces sity exists for filling the vacan Why could not the supreme court get along | mand; { they desire and certainly ought to have. | definite, but it the president is disposed | [ then the war taxes imposed upon our | Those QUESTION OF who advocate m of Cuban of the duty that jeland would not only R the VEAUE. , tree admis- | i large redue | on sugar imported propose something | endanger the ex try, but wonld a large e For rift cugar on vielded in In 18¢ n hot n nment « the largest st iso take fre revenue, S rev producer the customs which nacted, Dl t article over £30,000,000 & year, wis $61, in 117,772 and on account increasing production at home it ited that the revenue for the 1 year will be about $48,000, the su 1000 it £ the was Obviously this I« too large an Item of | to diseard, ven under the | condition of a large excess of | expenditures, and it it disearded there could no | of internal taxe 4ll-: 1 by the people and urged by the | tent and secretary of the treasury wise and sound polley to take nue from the government in the interest of Cuban sugar producers and maintain taxation of our own people, characterized by Secretary Gage as in its nature vexatious and In some In stances It fs perfectly clear that we eannot glve the Cubans what they ask and also give our own people the relief from taxation which revenue ssent should 1 reduction over as rey oppressive? The president recommended in hls mes- s a substantial reduction in the duties on Cuban products. This s in to gfant the Cubans what they desire pec main tter which it seems to us congress must consider, particularly in | view of the fact that concessions to Cu- | ban sugar would probably not benefit in the e American consumers, It s | extremely doubtful if Id be appreciably cheapened to the consumer even if Cuban suga admitted to free. Therefore a “sub- | reduction” in the duty would | dvantage to our people so far It | This is a m st sugar wo ir market stantial be of no as the price of sugar Is concerned would revenue from the ment, uger the existence and cer aluly the development of th lome industry, without any compensat ing benefit to the Amerlean people. The domestic beet and cane sugar in dustries urge that they are equally entitled with other industries to pro tection. It proposed or contem plated to change any tarlff schedule ex cept that of sugar. The president and | the republican leaders in congress de- clare that this Is not the time to inter fere with the tariff and that protection to our industries must be maintained— | except as to sugar. This our beet and | cane sugar interests very naturally re- gurd as an unfair and unjust discrimi- nation and it must be admitted that the | weight of argument i$ on their side. | Nevertheless concesslon will doubtless be made to Cuban sugar, though we canuot believe that congress will go as far as the, planters of Cuba desire, we our of take govi end stop not some — WILL LEASE TERRITORY. Nicaragua has already signed a proto col agreeing to perpetually lease to the United States territory through which to construct a canal. 'This agreement coutemplates the leasing of a strip six miles wide, which our iiles less than recommended by the Isthmian Canal commission, but undoubtedly should our government desire that the territory to be leased shall be ten miles | wide there will be o ditfieulty in secur- | ing the concession. 1t s also necessary | to lease territory from Costa Riea and undoubtedly that country will be found entirely willing to make whatever terms the United States shall desire, A Washington dispateh says that a treaty will not be negotiated with the two Central American republics until the senate has ratified the new canal aty, which it is thought may be done re the holiday The treaty has been favorably reported to the sen- ate from the committee on foreign re- lations and Senator Lodge has announced that its consideration in executive ses- slon will be pressed from day to day. | There Is some oppositign, though it is not expected to greatly delay action, and there appears to be no doubt that when the opposition has had a hearing | the treaty will be ratified.. With that | accomplished no further obstruction is anticipated. ———— TREATIES PROBABLY DEAD. It is probable that the reciprocity treaties which are before the senate will | not be ratified. Indeed, this has been the opinion sibee the appearance of the president's message, for while Mr. Roosevelt made a strong and earnest argument for the prinelple of reciprocity, his only reference to th pending treaties was to ask the attention of the senate to them. Senator Cullom, who chairman of the forelgn relations committee would have charge of the fight for the treaties, is reported as| saying that it begins to look as if they would not be ratified. In an interview a few days ago the INinois senator said: “The California senators tell me they are afrald of the Jamalca treaty; they think it would let in some fruits In competition with thelrs, The Connecticut senators tell me they are afrald some industry the is going to be hurt if the French treaty Is ratitied, The Maine senators have local interests which must f tected from competition. Aud so it goes, In half the states of the union th are Interests which think they are going to be hurt it the treaties are ratified, The is there are enough senators to v @ a combination and de- feat all the treaties, Perhaps It is early to say just what will be done, but it looks now as if the treatles bad very little chance.” Of course If none of these treaties is ratified the effect will be to throw cold water on the whole scheme of reciprocity. Countries which may desire to establish closer trade re lations with the United States wild be is recess, as he 0 consequence with elght commissioners Instead of nine | would rec arding the result of negotiations hey will naturally reason that if the pending treaties, carefully drawn and having the approval of so thorough a Mr. MeKin n republican it hardly possible that any reciprocity ar rangement could nogotiated that ve the approval of that body Thus thie failure of these treaties would be very likely to end for the present at tempts to negotiate reciproeity ag ments, thereby practically abandoning the policy which William McKinley d clared to be vital to the expansion of our foreign commer protectionist as are acceptable to a senate it 1s BUCKING THE LOCOMOTIVE. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, who by trade is a elgar maker, has planted him self squarely against the use of machin ery in the manufacture of cigars In the interest of the American cigar makers he is reported to favor a boy cott of machine-made cigars, In taking this position Mr. Gompers Is very mueh lke the man who tried to buck the locomotive. This is an age of machinery and every practical labor. saving appliance, although it may tem porarily displace labor, has in the end been found to be beneficial to the tollers. Machinery has not only enlfrged the seope of industry, but it has placed the wageworker fn condition to enjoy the benefits of cheapened production. Wherever machinery has crowded out workingmen from one trade it has opened the door for them in another and has ultimately contributed toward sening the hours of labor and raising the wages of the labores Take, for example, t The typesetting placed but hy printer's tr: wachines have dis large number of compositors, Ineing the cost « they have increased th acity of the | publisher to'supply the growing de mand for books and periodicals. Inci itally typesetting machines have ena- « publishers of newspapers to double | and treble the quantity of reading mat- | ter In the papers, thus benefiting the public. The fear that the adop- | composition | end to curtail those privileges they | | will resist and seek to obstruct | teat consolidation The Unlon Stock Yards company v‘.~} | held its annual election and made its | distribution of surplus Tn | view of the recent decision the United States supreme court the Kansas case, stock yards are no long subject to state regulation and the com pany wil not have to set apart clal india-rubber fund for the t of legislative lobbyists and holdups. In cidentally it is to be hoped the company will be relleved of the of electing at least one stock ttor- | ney every two years to r the stock yar the floor state senate, or de earnings e of « in necessity yards present of the s on Nobody in Omaha will have jections to the proposed enlargement ¢ privileges for the East Omaha Bridg and Terminal company by cong sional legislation, but the taxpaying citizens of Omaha have a right to in sist that the bridge and terminal com pany pay its just proportion of county and Such a demand pnable or unjust, any ob taxes, ainly not unrea: Pounding the Octopus, Washington Post. Hon, Mose Wetmore has again landed heavily on the octopus. He has for the second time sold out to the brute at a big profit s Restricted Citizenship. Baltimore American, Although Indians are to be citizens and veters, 1t still will be a crime to sell them liquor. It is something very much like stealing the perfume from the rose to g them suffruge and then take away all that makes campaigns and elections Poor L enjoyable Deluge tis. Indianapolis Journal It is to be hoped the extraordinary num ber of bills introduced duriug the first few ays of the session of congress indicates vity of members during the recess and that it will soon subside. A total of 4,224 bills introduced 1in three days is alarming, No Oceaston for Agitation. tlon of the typesetting machine would educe the earnings of compositors has proved groundless. The machine opera- | tors rning higher wages than any | class of printers did before thelr intro- | duetion, with she hours, and the raise of the wages of the machine operator | has earried with it a bigher wage for | the hand typesetter, What Is true of the printers is equully true of all branches of th trade. The fnvention and fmprovement of the rotary pr has enormously multiplied the speed aud capacity for turning out every class of printed mat ter, with corresponding benefits pressmen, stereotypers, eleetrotypers and other mechanics employed in the printing trades. It stands to reason t the introdue- tion of machinery in the manufacture of gigars is bound to produce the same results In the loug run. If machine- made cigars are as perfect as hand- made cigars, the machine will make its way into the cigar factory, boycott or| no boycott, Instead of trying to buck the locomotive, the cigar makers would | do better to adjust themselves to the conditions that mark the world’s progress in the twentleth century. | | printing sse8 to the Several months ago Millard Fillmore | Funkhouser, as chairman of the finance committee of the school board, pre- vailed upon Lis associates to adopt reso- lutions demandiug the calling of a grand Jury to probe what he called well-de- fined rumors of blackmail by munieipal officials, With extraordinary credulity the board voted these resolutions on | I'unkhouser's representation that he was possessed of ample information to justify such a step. The grand jury has been in session nearly six weeks, | but Funkhouser has not yet volun- teered to appear before that body with the information locked up in his bosom, The reason given by Funkhouser for this failure to show up is that he has | not yet been subpoenaed, which means that no deputy sheriff has as yet deliv- ered him a paper guaranteeing $2 for his testimony. Mr. Funkhouser's ideas of the duty of ‘citizens who claim to have knowledge of eriminal conduct on the part of public officers, or, for that matter, of private citizens, are very queer. Is it not the duty of every eiti- zen who has knowledge of criminal practices to furnish this information to the grand jury without being cited by the sheriff and paid for his evidence? Is it not much more so the duty of man who publicly demands a grand jury inquisition as a prosecuting wit- ness? Several influential democratie papers are protesting vigorously at the efforts of men prominent in the demoeratic na- tional organization to assist Senator Tillman in South Carolina to fre nator McLaurin out of the party. They see nothing but what Is perniclous in Tillman's leadership and fail to com prehend how the party can galn any thing by followlng a southern swash- buckler who has made himself so ob- noxlous to northern democrats. But that Tillman {8 animated by the inspiration of Bryan, as whose spokesman he acted in the Kansas City convention, must not be forgotten. The fight for Tillman s simply part of the fight to keep the Bryanites in control of the democratic organization and no mere protest will avail unless bucked by the whole body of democrats who want the whole part Among the complications likely to em burrass the consolidation of Omala and South Omaba under one government are the contracts and fran chises granted by South Omaha to gas, eleetr lighting, street railway, te phone and water companies, In whateve vespect these frgnehises may differ from or be Iu conflict with the privileges granted to these same companies by the city of Omaha, they will naturally pro- voke contention that may lead to almost endless litigation in the courts, It goes without saying that wherever consolida tlon would enlarge the privileges of the disinclined to make any effort in that direction when there is such uncertaiuty franchised corporations the would cheerfully acquiesce, but wherever they | amounted to only 3,500,000 bushels. | ports last week were Brooklyn The American F Eag ag assoclation may com- pose its fevered mind. There Is no nced of any law whatever as to the treatment of the American flag by the American people. That presentable e of cloth is not go- ing to be spurned and tralled In the dust by our citizens because there 1s no statute to keep them from doing it. Home Article Overlooked, Philadelphia Record. The bill introduced in the senate by ator Burrows of Michigan, dealing with anarchy, apparently only applies to alien | anarchists, providing against their getting into the country and for their deportation when discovered. It does not cover the case of home-bred anarchists llke the wretch who hot President McKinley and It | does not clearly define anarchism. Moderation in Navy Bul Philadelphia Iiecord. All this hasto for a great naval estab- lishment scems to proceed on the assump- tion that the United States must keep step in the race of maritime prowess with the war powers of Europe. But the only na tion that coml seriously threaten us is | the nation least likely to quarrel with us. The United States should be very low to imitate the example of nations that go per- petually armed to the teeth and drain the life blood of thelr people in a vain show of counter menace. If we shall maintain our policy of moderation in warlike expenditure we shall be better able to make war when necessary. Men and money are the real and the ready foundations ot strength alike in peace and war. Price of Corn Keep Chicago Tribune October of this year corn exports In Oc- of last year shipments aggregated 00,000 bushels. Shipments from Atlantic only 278,000 bushels, against 6,300,000 bushels for the correspond- ing period in 1900. It is evident that Eu- rope does not care to take much corn at present prices. These prices, however, do not seem to be affected by the decline in shipments, It follows, therefore, that there must still be a great deal of corn in the hands of producers, who are holding it in the hope of prices even higher than those which obtain now, or that the demand for corn for domestic purposes, such as the manufacture of glucose, starch, break- fast foods, etc., 1s so great as to keep up the price in spite of the falling off in the forelgn demand. The census figures show- ing how many million bushels of corn were | used in varfous domestic manufacturing industries during the census year will be | accessible before long. Undoubtedly the total will be surprisingly large—so large a8 to show the corn growers that they need not be afrald of raising too much of that grain. Up. In tober 13 ABUSE OF INJUNCTION, A Jurist Discusses the Arbitrary Power Assumed by the Bene Philadelphia North American, The pointed comments of Judge Tulley be- fore the Iroquois club of Chicago upon the rapid development of government by injune- tion cannot fail to arrest the attention of the thoughtful. With the past twelve months United States judges have been par- ticularly busy reading new theories into the law which they are supposed to in- terpret. In thelr eagerness to exerclse authority at critical moments they have ar rogated to themselves not only the right of the legislative power to make laws, but the duty of the adminlstrative branch of the government to enforce them. The fashion having been once set, there has grown a sort of rivalry between the courts of equity as to which one can go the farthest. The process of the usurpation of power by the judiclary is thus briefly described by Judge Tulley “The judge, without hearing the defend ant, decrees what he shall or shall not do in advance and without a hearing, enforces the performance of the commands of the writ, then brings the defendant before him tries him without a jury, adjudges him guilty of a violation of the commands of the writ formulated by the judge himselt in the absence of the defenflant, and sen tences him to a punishment not defined by law, but resting in the breast of such Judge Is not such a ding by the judge government by injunction and a substitute for trial by jury?" It Judges can creatg new offenses unknown to the statutes, prejudge defendants by an tieipation, conviet them without trial by jury and prescribe penalties out of hand for acts not prohibited by law, the g antees contalned in the constitution ar no avall. If the courts are correct in con struing the right of injunction as they have done of late, 1s nothing to prevent autocratic judiciary from making still further encroachments upon the liberty the individual, there ar | | ot the | threatened | cannot | on DECEMBER 11, Mr. Bryan's Manifesto Chicago Chr wi nterred A favor an has suntfymen In th party ot it. He h en out a manifesto which 1% in substan: platform which he will seek the pr ntial nomt hand pational democracy Br saye that fmperialism ende ot Philippine questions nings f the next Mr nd the still it the itical ng them are that % Do only by to the front hope in 19 By inference, th Bryan recovered partially or permanently from hls unsound money delusion. The curre of the Is apparently to remain Mr. Bryan during the nvase, For this prom 1 re ted recurrence of fin on Bryan’s part the e ought thankful ation of the unsound money issue polities will intellt gent men of all parties free to discuss in tranquility and reason the real natlonal issues before the American people. Mr. Bryan will not find any considerable number of his fellow citizens ready to ag to his proposal that Amerfcan flag unconditionally withdrawn from tho Phil ippine islands. He says “‘the war Is un- necessary because the people of thoss islands are ready to lay down their arms whenever their independence {8 promisel them.” Mr. Bryan bas no better means of knowing this than any other American citl zen Americans must differ over the equity or necessity of the continued presence of our arms on Philippine territory after the sur- render at Manila. But humane Americans now abandon the Philippine people who prefer our constitution to anarchy or pu Mr. country un- by next prosidential liet from clal luna country Elim} from national 1 expe Mr to be leave I an- re¥ ontele (dem.) 1est by a European power that the people of the Philippines “cannot he citizens without en 1 ng our clvili They cannot be ibje without ling form government The literary habit of mind has never been of practical anship s instructive inclination to pret « fundamental to politics. there Is no reason Philippine tslands nvasion and con Mr. Bryan says A at ot ¢ pet our characteristic states Mr. Brya tiness of ex, s in his ads As a matter of why people ot should becom, American citi have made cltizens of red of descendants of Af ruling of the ¢ far assim oral ession | weak ne pability fact the not zens. We aborigines’ and rican tribesme Philippine {lable stoc out The people are more They peacefyl =dustrious, accustomed to obey and to com- mand. They have responded readily to our overtures of friendship when accompanied with convinelng proofs of a sincere pur- pose to establish among them firm, free, honest and just republican government. The work, it is true, is only begu To desert it now would be cowardice. The ultimate solution of the political status of the Philippines cannot be predicted now But this can be asserted now-—that flag of the United States must the Philippines for the protection of the people from ararchy or invasion and that the constitution and laws of the United ates must be put Into operation in islands as rapldly as possible. Mr. Bryan will find that no considerable proportion of the national democratic party will support him or any other presidential candidato on a platform proposing deser- tion of the people of the Philippine Islands anarchy, dictatorship or Invasion for or reconquest, mass to conqu ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. ples on (he of Life in the Metropoli Carren York s steadily encroaching upon as a city of costly swell dinners. A weeks ago a Delmonico dinner for ten room decorated to resemble a forest $1,000. Last week a feast for thirty men, given at one of the hotels, cost the host $2,600. Behind them e palms, on the table rare roses and in a row inside the horseshoe a line of potted chrysanthemums. | All about the room vari-colored electric lights, Farmonizing with the flowers, gave ow Paris fe Ina cost we | the fllumination for the banquet. Clreling the room was a girdle of palms In one part of the banquet hall was hidde an orchestra, while fonally al music, furnisbed by a sextet, was heard Beside cach plate was a box contalning a souvenir. This was an ash tray, cast in bronze with the figure of a woman lying upon it, as if on the sands of a beach. Altogether the dinner, the flowers and the favors footed up the sum of $85 for ea man who sat before a plate. oaca vo comed 1509, Admiral Dewey ho at New York, In Septembe the police boat was loaded with distin- guished officlals who had pull enough to et on board. It headed the procession and as it steamed up the river there was tragrant trail of smoke bahind it that never came from the smokestacks. The police captain in charge had loaded the boat up with a choice collection of liquors and cigars. The bill has just found its way into the ofice of Comptroller Coler and that gentleman has put his foot down the payment. “The city never gave you authority to spend $627 for liquors and clgars,”” he sald to the captain, “and you or somcbody else will have to whistle for the money.” “But whistling won't bring it back,” mut. | tered the captain, “especially when it bas | gone up in smoke. 1 When was w Once a day a curious scene is enacted at the varlous banks receiving the mo of the New York street car lines, So many | nickels aro deposited that the clerks do not try to count them. They weigh them | and pray for the early death of the man | who invented them. Of course, worn and light coins run a few more to the ton than new ones from the mint, but the discrep- ancles average about the same all the way along and little or nothing fs lost by this method of counting nickels. Thus the | nickela that come in by truck and wheel- | barrow loads to the bank are kept moving | until they reach the sub-treasury, to be | recoined or again put into circulation. With thousands of conductors collecting fares, & shower of money falls into the company's recelving offices In different parts of town every day. This money is transferred each day by strongly bulilt treasure wagons to the banks convenient to the recelving offices. This transfer of cash requires three teams of horses to be changed during the day for each wagon Trusted officlals with a special guard armed to the teeth accompany the wagon. Conductors are required to keep thelr | nickel supply reduced to the lowest point by working the colns off on passengers | in making change. Result: It the conductor is expert, he will be able to turn in bills and silver chiefly. But In spite of all this warfare against the nickel, the thirty-one lines of the sys- tem yield nickels by the wagonload Each of the big lines of the system, such as the Columbus avenue, Amsterdam Broadway, Lexington, Madison and Third avenuo, ought to earn from $4,000 to $12,000 a day. The thirty-one lines earn, accord- ing to the published figures, a little mora than $14,000,000 annually. For slugle the gross receipts, as published, are about $43,500. To carry the passengers yielding all this money 7,000 cars are required. There are 227 miles of electric road, and, surprising to relate, 168 miles of horse car lines still remaining as a relic of dark ages, and re- quiring 6,000 horses to rattle and bang them through the streets at indifferent spoed | | Never has the city of New York been so dug up as it s now,” writes a corre- spoudent of the Philadelphia Ledger has not been a very comfortable place to live In the past summer and fall. Every- where the ax, the spade, the blast, the hammer and the derrick are in evidence. The construction of the underground tun- nel has created a deep trench through the center of the city from one end of Man- hattan island to the other. Every block or two there are great derricks to move stone and dirt and at frequent intervals through the day workmen run out with red flags of warning and pretty soon the report of the blast s heard through the ety v- eral of the hotels along the line of the tun. have had their severely in- by the operat ttending its con- structien, which night and day, On other streets raflroad company 1s changing its tracks. The New York Cen- tral h started on extensive altera- tions of its Park avenue subway. The phalting of Broadway has caused delays to traffic. The erection of the new across the East river obstructs streets. Other public works are soon to be started, such as the tunnel to Brooklyn and the Atlhntic le improvement. Great bylldings are in the truction, rotably the public library ustom house, the ( the new Stock Exchar Hall of Rec- ords. Nassau cen bridged by 1 ne bus us goes the on as- aven cor new ne hamber of O and the street has massive scaffolding necessary for the con- | struction of the $2,000,000 skyscraper of the Hanover National bank. Herald Square is In a state of semi-blockade, erection of two great department stores, which are destined to turn this quarter of the city into a big shopping district. All this is evidence of growth, of @evelopment, of improvement. All theso things are trans- forming the city into a greatness hardly dreamed of & generation ago, but while the operations are golng on they make life in the metropolis more burdensome.” PERSONAL NOTES. copy of James Russell Lowell's class at Harvard, In original wrapper, aring date of 1835, wae sold¥at auction in Boston, bringing $70.50. Walter F. Howe, for fifty years postmas- ter at Nerth Leominster, Mass., resigned on Monday. His present office has been in use for the last thirty-seven years. John Lawrence, one of the most noted fox hunters in England, has just dled at the age of 94. Until ten years ago he was out a week with the hounds all through | the season. | George de Groat, a letter carrfer of Mor- town, N. J., bae been allowed (vllhu-nn‘ claims by the patent office at Washington for a collectors’ recording mechanism for | letter boxes. Prof. F. F. Mertens of Russia, who ha |Just returned home from a vielt to Amer- s ica, says that the thing that impressed him most in this country was the national li- brary at Washington. Mr. John F. Feely, the new member of | cangress from the Second Illinols district, | is the youngest member who ever the house of representatives. . He graduate of the Yale Law school. An Irish-American of San Francisco has erected in the cemetery of Fontenoy a marble tablet commemorating the herolsm of the Irish legion in the service ot France who on that famous fleld ~settled & few ancient scores with Britaln, May 11, 1745, Prof. John W. Jenks, who hae just com- pleted his sclentific observations of county government o southern Illinols, {8 now on his way to Asta, where he will gather data concerning British adminietration in India. He is professor of political economy in Cornell. Sebastian B. Ettlinger, the keeper of the Washington monument at Washington, died last Thursday. He was appointed ten years ago, and each day he ascended at least once to the gallery beneath the statue to light the winding stairway, and in doing so mounted 225 steps. Long before the readivg of President Roosevelt’s message had been concluded in the senate it was whispered around the chamber that his phrase “reciprocity mus be treated as the handmaid of protection’ was borrowed from the late James G. Blaine. Senator Mason and others ac- knowledged having used it in speechee. Hon. Ethan Allen Hitchcock, secretary of the interlor, had a grocery and provision store in St. Joseph, Mo., when a young man, and sold provisions mostly to ploneers paesing through that city for the far west. He went to China after selling out and re- turned to St. Louts a wealthy man. At a cost of about $30,000 the honor of the navy at Samoa has beem vindicated What over-modest missionarles couceived to be u long series of jags contracted by Cap- tain Tillie proved to be a twilight exerclse locally known as lummy-lummy. This con- sists of a native decollette costume, a re- clining posture on a doormat and a series of yells and kicks to increase the mobility of limbs and lungs. Under a tropical twilight evil minds misinterpreted what really proved to be a nude departure in pushing civilization among barbarlaps, A poem twl Christmas shopping. suitable for gifts, House Coats Bath Robes Umbrellas Gloves Handkerchiefs boxes. in- the | due to the | SPENDING THE SURPLUS, ! nique Scheme Insinonted by Rail orporations, Chicago Chronicle A tew railroads terminating in Washin | ton are determined to get their share the surplus. At least that e to be infe | trom the descriptions in the Washingto newspapers of the magnificent $12,000,00 central railroad station be e | that city. It is to be the largest and fines building of the kind on earth. It is to ac commodate all the rajlroads Its construction depends on the favorable tion of congress. That means that gress {s expected to provide th right-of-way for all the tracks to reach and to pay outright in cash a large propor tion of the cost of the building. In Ch cago, New York and other citles far more important than Washington the rallroad have to pay for building their statione an all the expensés connected with the work What would Webstor and Clay—who rode il stage coaches from Massachusetts an. | trom Kentucky ' to Washington—have | thought of bullding at government expenee | wholly n part a stage statfon there costing one-third as much as the tota annual expenses of the government in those days? re to o or | AvGHI the | remain in Detroit Free Pry Willta—Our teacher called the wind “rude.”" T wonder why. Slsle—1 guess because it whistles Yonkers Statesman: Dill-Was tha fish. | g good where you ‘ave been? JIlI=0h, yes! Too good to lle about. Washington Star: “T specks,” sald Uncla { Eiben, “dat de gIf' o' prophecy wouldn' do | us much good If we had it. A man knows | he's gwinfer' git sick If he eats too much | dinner.” But he goes an’ does it." Chicago Tribune: “Mamma,” sald the peited helnoss, “why ‘this ceaseless and wearying round of gaveties? Aren't we Hich onough now to afford to be comfort ab #0 ric fortable.’ dear,”" replied mamma. “We are that we can't afford to be com- Philadelphla Press: “Then you don't he lieve that ‘opportunity knocks once at each very gentl: Wi 10 ) ‘Well, it may do that it ¥ hever heard of bell-pull out by the raote m plied the pessimist t yanking the | Chicago Post: “Bhe looks sweet enough [ to eat' he exclaimed with rapturous ex aggeration “Yes,' admitted her envious friend, “and if 1t were not for one thing she would be "' “What fs that? “Her temper would give you indigestion Washington 8tar: “You know 1sed me sobbed the soubret who was rtaking of a luncheon in the third act that these should be real victuals'” And stepping over to the rear of the stage sho wept real tears into & real tank. sald Gazzam. I'll send an asbestos ou prom- olng to send Infilnt,” said Pittsburg Chronicle: “I'm a Christmas present to old 8| Hunker. ut he's dead, I know it ing jacket.” smok- Just Before. the cute designing maiden wenrs o face all brightly laden with the sun light of the sweetest smile her fellow ever saw, she throws in his direction tokens of affection tl his heart ever rising to the level af his craw. Shows by every 1ook and action what ex auisite satlafaction khe derives from nightly visits from her dapper princs af beaux her love will not diminish tfll she works him to a finish and he's blown himself for presents for her shapely Christmas heaux Now Ana little And A LAY OF ANCIENT ROME. Harvard Lampoon. Oh! the Roman was a rogu He erat, was, you bettum; He ran his automobills And smoked his clgarettum; He wore a_dfamond studibus And elegant cravattum, A’ maxima cum laude shirt And such @ stylish hattum! 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