Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 3, 1902, Page 6

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Btate ot N Douglas Count; (‘on B'b'x?,mox. eratary of e Bes Publishing being. duly eworn says that the ai * mumber - of -~ full . and omplets coples of The Dally, Evening_and Sunday Bee printed the month of August, 1902, W 28,720 EEEENERRERESEENEE Less unsold and returned copl Net total sales Net dally average Bubseribed 1 GEO B. TZBCHUCK. his' 1t 0 "'x"é“«'“"m'"{"xi" tl it day of September, 3 lore me & gl ATE, Be Nnurv Publlc -Summer resort men ought ‘to be right in practice to jump into the winter resort business. SEmsem—— Omaha has captured the presidency of the Nebraska Embalmers’ association. This is on the dead. That unexpected addition of §9,000 to 1ts revenues Is being spent by the school board ‘mot once but several times. The only way to verify Senator Platt's predictica that the coal strike will be settled in two weeks Is to wait and see. Et———— Arkansds has gone democratic again. It goes democratic so regularly, how- ever, that democrats draw no inspiration ’ mm it 1 Pdu 18 really erupting again, we ‘ ought to have a fresh supply of neéws ! about smoldering volcanoes in northern ! Nebraska and fierce earthquake’ shocks on the rim of the arid reglons. That polite Tennessee train robber who lntroduced himself to his victims before making his departure should have bad visiting cards printed for dis- tribution as mementoes of the occasion. Sage———— Perhaps Pelee mply coming to the rescue of the belated magazine articles on voleanic phenomena contributed to current perlodicals by sclentific experts to give them a better flavor of timell- ness. Colonel Willlam Jennings Bryan will help open the democratic campaign in Missourl. That's the reward the Mis- sourl democrats get for standing faithful to the Kansas City platform in its every word and sentence. = Jones of Arkansas, who shone for & while as chairman of the democratic na- tional committee, 'will issue no bulletins on the democratic victory in his state. The .Arkansas election cinches the re- tirement of Jones to private life. Sep—— “The heat was excessive, but the presi- dent stemed to suffer but little from its effects,” reads the account of the Labor day receptions to President Roosevelt in New England. He won't be troubled that way when he comes out west. a—————— After all, when we get through play- ing war, there is no assurance that a real invader would go about it the same way. In fact, the foreign enemy will have full warning that he will have to try something different if he wants a chance at success. S It's all In the way it is done. The difference between the attitude of the street rallway managers to thelr em- ployes and that of the Union Pacific management to its men is the difference between the strike and the peaceable adjustment of grievances. E—————— Denver has just come out lucky from the collapse of a fimsy grandstand erected for temporary use at its horse If any reviewing stands are to THE AMERICAN PRINCIPLE. It is very remarkable that BEuropean sentiment ghould be so adverse, even in a limited degree, to the enunclations of the American prineiple embraced in what {8 known as the Montoe doctrine. 1f that were a new principle, if it had been promulgated in recent years, or since the United States has become a “world power” it would not be ditficult to understand that Buropean powers should be somewhat antagonistic to it and be unwilling to give It recognition. But the doctrine was proclaimed nearly 18c | eighty years ago, when the United States was comparatively a weak nation, and it has been repeatedly affirmjed since as a cardinal part of American policy in respect to affalrs in, this hemisphere. Yet it 1s a strange fact that the Amer- fean attitude in regard to this principle is still being discussed abroad and there seems to be a feeling in certain quarters that somehow it is the duty of foreign governments to put themselves on record as opposed to the Monroe doctrine. The references which President Roosevelt, in an entirely conservative way, has recently made to the position of the United® States In regard to the Mon- roe doctrine, have started am amount of - discussion abroad that Iindicates very . profound .feeling there on the subject which seems to be“quite without justification. This Is par- ticularly true of Germany, if recent re- ports are true, and yet that country has absolutely no good reason for objecting to the Monroe doctrine, since it has no interests in this hemisphere which the American principles Interferes with. It 18 alleged, it is true, that Germany 18 seeking to colonlze certain parts of South America and that this contra- venes the policy of Monroeism, but there 1s nothing in this ‘which should trouble the mind of any supporter of that pol- fey. The doctrine does not interfere with the immigration of Germans or any other liuropean to the western hemi- sphere, but simply prescribes that the governments of Kurope shall not seize territory In this hemisphere and plant their political institutions here. President Roosevelt has stated the American idea of the Monroe doctrine in declaring that it means that “this continent must not be treated as a sub- Ject for political colonization by any European power.” That is all there is of it and It is remarkable that European governments seem unable to understand the true significance of the principle, It is not, as Mr. Roosevelt sald, that we are aggressive toward any power. “It means merely that as the biggest power on this continent we remain steadfastly true to the principles first formulated under the presidency of Monroe, through John Quincy Adams—the principle that this continent must not be treated as a subject for political colonization by any European powers.” That doctrine the American people are unalterably in favor of and under no circumstances will they abandon it. - BLIPSHOL TAX, ASSESSMENTS, - - The raflroad tax bureau continues to rail over the slipshod, haphazard fashion of making; Nebraska as- sessments. In this pect we fully coincide with the ralltoad tax bureau. There certainly Is good ground for de- nouncing Nebraska assessments as slip- shod and toughshod when raflroads in the most prosperous era of Nebraska are assessed for many milliens less than they were during the years of drouth and general depression, notwithstanding the fact that they have increased their mileage and multiplied their rolling stock. There certainly is a great deal of slip- shod and haphazard assessment when rallroad property is assessed at ome- thirteenth of its actual value, while the bulk of all other property returned for assessment in Nebraska Is appraised at one-third to one-seventh of its actual value. Nebraska's assessments are awfully slipshod when it 18 borne in mind that out of the assessed valuation of over $25,000,000 for Douglas county. the rail- roads represent ouly 8 per cent; that the Burlington terminals, depots and depot grounds within the eity limits of Omaba pay about the same amount of taxes u.tj_n Bee building; that the Union Pdcific bridge, toward which Douglas county voted a quarter of a million of subsidy bonds on which it Is taxed for $12,600 In interest a year, is assessed at $1,568 and pays about $39 of county taxes and $45.00 of city taxes. Surely that beats $2.86 sewing ma- chives, $1.85 watches and clocks and 57 cent per acre sand bills all to pleces. LABOR'S UBLIGATIONS. In his address at Kansas City Sena- tor Falrbanks of Indiana, speaking to the workingmen, said some things that ought to be seriously considered by labor everywhere. He pointed out that those who represent labor organizations are charged with important and deli- cate responsiblilities and that they should therefore be men of the highest character and worth. That s an un- questioiable proposition. No man who has any regard for his personal char- acter or for his' worth as a mewber of the community will for a minute ques- tion the proposition that the individual, whether he be a member of a union .| counters, -bull fights,. poker- games~and-f solute harmony between the now con- flicting interests, Senator Falrbanks recognized, what every rational man must see and admit, that organized labor is a permanent fact which it 1s absolutely futile to oppose “The evolution in our industrial cond}- tlons,” said the Indlana senator, “which is the marvel and admiration of the world, has rendered it necessary that labor should organize.” Can there be | any doubt or question about this? Again he sald: “Labor organizations have thelr origin in the instinct of self- preservation, of mutual advancement, of common good, and are as natural and legitimate as the organization of capi- tal. In fact,” he said, “the organization of labor and capital naturally go hand | in hand. The one Is essentially the complement of the other.” Cousidered in all its relations it Is absolutely apparent that labor as well as capital Bas its obligations and that both are bound to consider what is due to' the public interests and welfare. That nelither of them do this Is a fact which 18 constantly working 'against the general welfare. TROSE FUXY PUPOCRATS. A crow, having len & bit of flesh, perched in a tree and held it in her beak. A fox, seelng her, longed to possess him- self of the flesh, and by a wily stratagem succeeded. “‘How handsome is the orow,” he exclaimed, “in the beauty of her shape and in the falrness of her complexion. If her volce were only equal to her beauty she would deservedly be the queen of birds.” This he sald deceitfully, but the crow, ahxious to refute the reflection cast | upon her voice, set up a loud call and dropped the flesh. The fox quickly picked it up and thus addressed the crow: “My good crow, your volce is right enough, but your wit Is wanting."—Aesop's Fables. The suggestive lesson of this fable is recalled by the following alleged Wash- ington special telegram to the World- Herald: There is every Indication that the am- bassador to Germany, Mr. Andrew D. White, wiil be succeeded by John L. Web- ster of Omaha. ' The president, it is said, has most favorably considered the sug- gestion, even it he has not\definitely de- clded on it. The appointment of Mr. Web- ster has been strongly urged by Senator Millard. The president is understocd to have not yet reached a final determination in the matter. The wily popocrats, who are anxious to help Mercer to a renomination that will make Hitehcock’s election certaln, are very much disturbed over the ap- parition of Webster on the congres- sional hofl:op. Their effort to lure him to a higher altitude is as deceitful as it 1s ingenious, but we apprehend that John L. Webster is not a spring chicken nor even a crow in politics. While he ap- preclates the compliment conveyéd In that Washington special, he can read between the lines and wmprelwndl fully its purport. S—— Governor Savage wants to add a pho- tographer to his staff. The governor evidently thinks the photographers who have taken snapshots at him in various attitudes at picnies, banquets, linch political grandstands have not done him full justice. The governor wantsgo be phot.omphed in the attitude in which He istobd on- fhé atage of the Lincoln auditorium, facing the republican con- ventjon and making frantic appeals to them for an endorsement of the Bartley parole. That would be an historic plic- ture to hang in the executive chamber. The governor should engage & photo- grapher by all means. ————— One of “the railroads of Nebraska” is boasting that it has just placed the largest order for locomotives ever given by any railroad. For this road, it I8 in- sisted that its equipment will have been enlarged during the year by 425 new locomotives of the most modern and ex- pensive pattern. A good share of its mileage is in Nebraska, but it will be interesting to watch how many of the new locomotives are eredited up to this state In its next tax returns and at what valuations. enprm——— Chalrman Goss might travel the straight road If he mdde himself his own guide, but when he submits him- self to the directions of Mercer and Mercer's factotum, he quickly gets off into a crooked path. Mr, Goss should remember that as chairman of the county committee he is supposed to act in a representative capacity for all the republicans of Douglas county, and not merely for one nonresident congress- man. Reading the answer filed by Jim Hill in the merger suits ought to counviuce any fair-minded man who knows noth- ing about the other side of the question that the community-of-interest magnates are instigated solely by motives of gen- erous philanthropy and an unmixed de- sire to give the public better railway service at cheaper rates, without re- gard whatever to the profits of the own- ers or the winnings of the stock gamblers. President Roosevelt has set at rest the talk about him contemplating the promo- | tion of Attorney General Knox to the supreme bench vacancy to be made by the retirement of Justice Shiras. An- other story will now have to be in’ vented to explain the delay in the con- summation pf the promised weat pack- ers' combine. E———— Towa democrats will go through the form of nominating a state ticket very peacefully, but will fight furlously over 3. reassertion of le:l‘ty to 16 to 1 free But in debatable states, where the .‘h constitute a prize within reach, lhwn over “principles” is- of or not, must conform himself to the laws and the order of soclety of which he —————————— According to Willlam F. Gurley, “Omaha needs Mercer more than Mer- cer needs Owmaba” When a public servant or a private servant, for that | matter, thinks be has become indls- pensable, it is high time to give him his walking papers. — Mercer's Pool-Bah still insists that the county committee must abdicate in his favor so that he can levy his $50 head tax on Mercer's competitors and do them up by juggling with the ballots. "that “it s not the guns that win the bat have just repudiated the Chicago and Kan- s City platforms. Yot Colonel Bryan keeps wasting his eloquence on long distance New- England #pellbinding and harmonizing tours. Not as Eany An 1t Looks. Brooklyn Eagle. It is a deal easier to be president of seventy millions of people who are largely of one mind, than to be president of one and a half mfition Cubans with one and a halt million different minds. Still, the discovery of minds tedates the harmony of them. Reasoning Out of Date. ‘Washington Star. Becretary Wilson's hopes that the abund- ance of cord will reduce the cost of beet may be well founded. But the argument is based on a mefhod of reasoning which prevailed somie time before the trusts came into operation., R e Money Well Employed. CléVeland Leader. The largest stock of money ever pos sessed by the American people or placed in eirculation continties to be very fully employed. Thit one fact is good proof, if any were needed, of the general activity of trade and industry. Speculation is by no means of extraordinary range or volume, Speaking to People Who Work. Indianapolis Journal. To the psople who have occupations—to those who toil in some fleld of usefulness, the president delivers addresses—now to the farmers and factory people in Conmectlcut and Maine, and next to the locomotive fire- men in Chattanoogs a few days hence. In no way does he recognize by his pressnce |or words the existence or usefulness of those who e no vocati Futile League of Kings. Philadelphia Inquirer. The Buropean kings who are reported to be organizing a leagup to keep American manufacturers out of Europe will have thelr trouble for their pains. Beyond question they can organize the league, but what good will that do? Their own people want American goods, the American manu- facturers want to and somehow will supply that demand just as they have been doing for years past. The world {s moving for- ward, not back. Taken at His Word. Philadelphia Ledger. Becretary Shaw's famous interview, in which he declafed that a returning tourist could bring anything into the country free of duty, even to a bale of hay, if it did not reach a value of more than $100, is likely to be surp: d for foolishness and embarrassing . consequénces by Secretary Wilson's promised philanthropy to the set- tlers of bare pine tree lands In the north- western states. He publicly declared that t government would assist colonists in that part of the country, and requests are now pouring into the Department of Agri- culture for teams of horses, seed corn, beet sugar factories and setting hens. High offoore 4o well slways to take care that ti w what they think and think ‘what (h.y — — AS OTHERS SER US. Whint the British Industrial Experts Discovered in the United States. Philadelphia Ledger. A commission of the British Iron Trade association, which visited this country to study its great steel and iron manufactur- ing industries, h4s published a report ‘which s dllc\uled in some of the English technical pape not yet reuclud the treasury bureau of statistics, but seme extracts from it have been printed by the English papers. The commission was composed of J. 8. Jeans, an authority on the subject; Axel Sahlin, an expert in blast furnace work; Ebenezer Parkes, a specialist in sheet and bar mill Mr. James says that it 1a a mistake to suppose that Americans work harder than Eng- cial attention to the steel industry. lishmen. They have to be attentive in sulding operations and quick In manipu- lating levers and similar easy work, and they are much more desirous than Eng- lish workmen to, get out large quantitie but they do mot work harder. They are better pald and more regular in their at- tendance st the works, loss of time through drinking habits or otherwise not being tolerated. Mr. Sahlin gives similar testimony, and adds that Americans aspire to the higher grades of work and leave to foreigners the rough manual labor. He saw Polish and Hungarian laborers working for $1 to $1.50 per day alongside of American rollers averaging $12 per day. The aver- age wages of men employed at Home- stead was, according to Mr. Carnegle, 33 per day, or, as Mr. Sahlin puts it, £187 per annum, against £68 per annum In fre and '£79 per annum in South Mr. Jeans gave special attention to the cost of llving, and concluded that the average Amarican workman,.in most of the essentials of life, could live as cheaply as his British brother. If this be approximately true the American must bave much the better of it, with average wages in these industries of $935 against $340 in Lancashire and $39 In Bouth Wales. Commenting oh these reports, the Lon- don_Statist approves Mr. Sablin’s remark tle, but the men behind them,” and adds: ‘What the American admires and honors 1s the ability to do; that capacity In a man, through ltis own sagacity, nerve, en- terprispe and skill, to create and employ a fortune. Nobody 1s above his work. Everybody works, and for the sake of work, and thus has been produced in Ame fea within g gemeration an Industrial po- tentlality more wonderful and more to be feared than all the factories and machinery and ‘plants’ that these workers have cre- ated. It comes to this, then, that Amer- ican labor is not more efficient, though it is better paid, than ou and that Amer- lean wanufacturing development is due to the persistent, unresting industry which once characterized the Briton, but for which trade unionism and athletics have given an apparently growing distaste. All the reporters, however seem struck with the strenuousness of American life. The comparative absence of a lelsured class is noted as one of the prominent character- istics of the principal cities and industrial centers of the United States. In the ave- nues of industry & man without a regular business, or who 1s not concerned in the development of some industry, is as a’ fish out of water. Nowhere, we are assured, is the -struggling youth more kindly encour- aged, more generously aided and more readily trusted—than in America; and it is pleasant to read of an esprit du corps among the works' managers which one would hardly expect to find in a land of such feverish, competition.” This s not merely complimentary; it is true. As & people we work hard because we llke to work; we are ambitious and entorprising, and it is the buman factor, mot our machine tools, that forelgn com- petitiors have to dread, now that the Amer- There is nothing small about Mercer's | °4" people have be‘ul to enter the mar- Pooh-Bah. kets of the world. P e War Vessel Sold at A BAN JOSE, Costs Rica, Sept. 2,—The Costa Rican war vessel Rose has been sold Mcwn-m.umuummum district, on the very berder of Nebrasks, | Colomblan governments ( The report iteelt has. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1902. New York ‘The Interstate Commerce commission's report for the year ending Junme 30, 1901, bears eloquent witness to the pressure of that tide of prosperity on which the nation has floated since the advent of the first MeKinley administration. Nowhere are the signs of good times or of hard times to be read more clearly tham in the increasing or diminishing business done in this coun- try by its far spreading rallroads. Rail- road values may rise or fall through the hazards of speculation, but raliroad opera- tlons themselves offer an unfailing index of national activity and national growth. The figures collected by the federal com- mission take an almost bewildering range. Yet every tabulation contributes to the general deduction of enormous and wide- spread national prosperity, in which the carrying trade of the country has had its necessary share. Like the statistical ab- stracts of the three or four years preceding, this latest report of the commission testi- fles not only to the vastness of our Ameri- can railway system, but to its constant advancement in extent of mileage, in earn- ing power, in safety of equipment and in efficiency and economy of operation. Earnings for the period covered by the re- port show an advance highly satistact the rallroad investor. The grot M"I’ll‘l of all the roads were $1,688,526,037, a gain of $101,000,000 over the year 1899-1900. Operating expenses were $1,080,307,270, an increase of only $68,068,759. The net earn- ngs—4568,128,767—reglistered, therefore, gain over the year preceding of $32,512, Earnings have more than kept pace with in- crease in mileage; for the average returns per mile have grown from $2,729 in 1899-1900 to $2,854 in 1900-'01. Yet nearly 4,000 miles of new track were laid in the period covered by the commission's report. Passenger traffic showed a relatively greater increase than freight trafic. The number of passen- gers carried was 607,278,121, a gain of 3 000,000 on the record of the year precedin; Freight tonnage fell off a little, the total— “railfoad traveler's lability Tide of Good Times Tribune, 1,089,226, 440—being emaller by 12,000,000 than that for 1889-1900. But the ton mile- age actually increased, indicating a greater density of trafic, and the total revemue from freight service rosé more than $69,- 000,000 above the level of the preceding year. Passenger revenue, with a greater expansion of business, made & gain of $27,- 640,626, a little larger percentage than that shown in the returns from freight. The enormous scale on which rallroad opera- tlons ‘in thig country are now conducted is suggested by the censue taken of rail- way employgs. ' Nearly 1,100,000 men were on the rallrond payrolls in 1900-'01, the act numbér being 1,071,169. This was an increase of 58,616 over the preceding year, and it 8 safe to say that an equal addi- tion has been made to this vast army since the commifsion’s latest enumeration wae ‘made. An especial tabulations wh interest attaches to the deal with the average to accident. casualties for 1900-'01 mounted up to 61,704. Death took an an- nual toll of 8445—780 lives more than ‘were lost in 1899-1900. But of the total number killed only 282 were passengers and only 4,128 passengers were injured out of a total Injured list of 53,339. One pas- senger was killed for every 2,153,460 car- ried and oné was injured for every 131,748 The st of carried. In view of the vast stretches of single line trai which American rall- rot operate, this record is not an ap- pelling ome, The: bad years in the ters. The one covered by the commission's report appears to be about an average ome, nfl it is perbaps sufficiently consoling to the jAmeriean traveler to know that by an application of the doctrine of chances to the record of 1900-'01 he ought to accom- plish, under conditions as they were then and doubtless are nmow, a journey of 61,- 637,548 miles before being killed, or a jour- ney of 3,479,067 miles before being injured. ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. the Current of Life in the Metropolis, Fire Chief Croker, son of the only Rich- ard, secured leave of absence for a vacation trip last July. He didn’t get a hint that there would be something doing as soon as he got out of town, and he went on s vacation as merrily as a youngster when school closes. Presently there was soms thing doing. The lock on the fire chief's desk was changed, as well as the lock on the door of the office. Keys to the new locks were sequested in the pockets of Fire Commissioner Sturgis. When Croker returned to town refreshed and reinvigor- ated, he bumped against locked doors and a hoarse laugh. “Your services nra no longer needed, you are dismissed,” whis- pered Bturgis thrnulh the keyhole. ‘““The | douce you r e you later hissed young Rlchu‘fl A mai damus from the supreme court secured his reinstatement, accompanied by the emphatic remark that a fire chief cannot be removed without trial on written charges sustained by evidence. Opponents of Crokerism ad- mit that the chlef s thoroughly competent and eficient, and that the action of the court puts the'fire commiseion in & very small hole. The loss of the master-key by a janitor fa a-large New York office bullding the other a _While occasioning considerable un- rest to fta former cistodlan and the‘tensnts of the building, nevertheless performed a useful service by acquainting many persons with the existence of the product of the locksmith's gunning. The master-key is an ingenious invention which is the open-se- same often to hundreds of offices each with its own peculiar lock. Its possession by an unscrupulous person might give him an in- troduction to the secrets or possessions of every office in the building. In the present case every lock in the buflding is being changed anda correspondingly large num- ber of new keys notched. The work of fitting out & I building with keys and locks sometimes takes over & month before its successful completion, for locks, in particular, have sensitive na- tures, and are often put,out of condition by petty disturbances. The task of manu- facturing & master-key or pass-key is a delicate undertaking, and often is accom- plished only after a number of composite wax impressions have been made. The first part of the key to be inserted has no effect on the lock, but simply forces an entrance. The various cuts in the edge then feel their way until one responds to some gateway in the interior of the lock. It is easy to see how many combinations can be devised by a system of delicate cuttings on the key and of slight changes in the tightening or turning of the lock. With passes of nearly all the important rallroads in the country in her possession and known to keep & valuable Great Dane | and a tiny poodle as pets, Mrs. Jean Harris | Hunter, 35 years old, who asserts she fs | the widow of Alexander Hunter, former president of the Chicago Board of Trade, was arrested In New York last week on & charge of vagrancy. Dressed ,in widow’s weeds of expensive material and wearing a beatific smile, Mrs. | Hunter was arrested after she had accepted a marked doliar at the office of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., 27 Pine street. It is sald she has collected more than $25,000 by systematic begging in the last three years. the woman ls the most | they she has | have met in years. They operated In cities from Oakland, Cal., to New York. A large number of letters were say found, and passes were taken from her of the following rallroad: Penngylvania, New York Central, Southern Pacific, Atchison, Topeka & BSanta Fe, Wabash, Chicago & Alton and Unlon Pacifie. ’ Beneath stout bare guarding & wide, arched window in the United States office in Wall street, says the New Post, thousands of dollars' worth of little gold bricks, the honest and true kind, pass every day from Uncle Sam's coffers to the bands of jewelers and bankers. And all that Uncle S8am charges for the exchange is | 4 cents on $100 for the large bars and 5! cents on $100 for the small ones For the week ending July 28 the gold bars (they did not call them bricks in the assay office) exchanged for gold coln amounted to $190,780.17. This is & small figure compared with what the office has done on & busy day. | Once, six or seven years ago, when a lai quantity of gold was to be shipped to Bu- rope, the assay office exchanged $8,000,000 into bars. The bars Uncle Sam dispenses are of two general sizes, the $5,000 size for bank- ers and the $150 size for jewelers, the small size being sbout an Inch and a quar- ter long, three-quarters wide and perhaps balf an inch or less In thickness. Very often they run up to $200 or evem more in value. Their size adapts them to the size of the je' crucible. As for the banker, does not melt his gold; he con- tents himself with ipping it back and forth across the ocean. A remarkable feature of this exchange of legal tender for gold bars is that one cannot always get just the amount he wishes. If a jeweler or a banker wishes $10,000 a gold bullion, Uncle Sam gives him as near that amount as he possibly can. It may be $9,970.50 or $10,060.30, be- cause the bars vary in size and weight, and practically all of them have odd cents in their valu Two bars the cashier handed out one day this week were stamped $531.70 and $123.10. In buying gold bars the purchaser first tells the cashier at the assay. office how much he wishes; the cashier comes as near this amount as he can with the bars on hand, and then the purchaser goe oxt door, to the sub-treasury, where he posits his legal tender, gold certificat: greenbacks or gold coin, for the amount designated by the assay office cashier as the nearest to the desired amount, recely- ing therefor & Gertificate which, upon pres entation at the assay office, imsures the delivery of the bars. But before they may be taken away the reciplent must sign for them in the register which lles open be- neath the bars of the wide-arched window. PERSONAL NOTES. SIr ‘Robert Bond, premier of Newfound- land, predicts that the Atlantic will soon be crossed in forty-four hours and that the trip from New York to London can be made in 100 hours. Marshall Fleld of Chicago is beading movement to colonize the numberless aban- doned farms of New England with farmers end mechanics from the old world. Several railroads are also interested in the project. Residents of Portland, Me., are taking steps looking to-the erection of*a memorial to Willlam Pitt Fessenden, long United States senator from Maine and secretary of the treasury under Lincoln. Mr, Fessenden was born in Portland. Two boys on the training ship Minne- apolls are representatives of both sides of the most mercil feud ever known in the south—the Hatfleld-McCoy war. -The lads are Perry McCoy and ‘“Ans Hatfleld. They have buried their hereditary hatred and are fast friends, with hammocks slung’ side by side. Some superextra oultured persons down east have been much shocked at the loose and careless way In which the president bas been using the English language in some of his speeches. In one of them— delivered in Bostop, too—he began thirteen unlucky sentences with the word ‘“now, and he used the phrase “have got' ele times. Worse that that, the chlef magis- trate of the nation actually split an in- finitive. | But, oh, Ihe ac Night SETTING THE CLOCKS. Every New York World. The most interesting moment of the day in orossing the ocenn is thut at which the ship's clocks are changed. On the stroke of eight bells the passengers set their watches and with the agt they realize ow many league of sea they have left | astern in twenty-four hours. It s with a similar feeling that we move from one round number to_gmother in de- scribing the population of the United States. When we could stop speaking of a nation of 40,000,000 people and begin Instead to speak of one of 50,000,000 we all felt a few inches taller. We grew still further when we rose trom 50,000,000 to 60,000,000 and trom 60,000,000 to 70,000,000.. . And now the time has come for a new advance. We may henceforth refer confidently to our 80,000,000 inhabitants. The taoreass {8 our Pepulstion Petween the censuses of 1890 and 1900 was the least shade under 1% per cent a year plus the yoar's immigration. The samg rate of in- crease would have brought us to the 80,- 1 000,000 mark in July, or, to be perfectly safe, in- August, of'the present year. It will be several years before we shall need to eet our national watches agaim, but, barring an unforeseen and improbable interference with our present rate of ad- ‘vance, President Roosevelt, or whoover may be chosen to sucoeed him at the next eleo- tion, will become the head of 90,000,000 people within the Iimits of the old com- tinental United States some time.in the year 1907, or at the very latest in 1908. AWAY, DULL CARE. Somerville Journal: When you throw one of your shoes at & cat in the nllht always tie a long string to lt. #0 that you can pull it back to throw agal Boston Post: The open stopped at & cross street and a lady no»d on_the footboard. The end seat hog glared at her, but made no move. ‘“‘May eome in gflxr sty ?"’ she Mkod sweetly. The E. 8. got Ted in the f and moyved ove: Ten't she s queenly e doctor, kl beautiful malden as she ® tnul ?on' the street. ‘‘How aMna “And how devilishiy pretty!” added the professor. Wllhlnflon Btar: ‘“‘Miss Gabl she_lot the truth mvl all thinj “Yes,” answered Miss Cayenn 'mth_dl lhll.‘u & rule, the truth is (h: mont disagreeable you can say abou anybody.” Philadelphia Press: Aunt ’Du hl'l a good time A?.m Binryof e course you danced. “":Y 0, but I made Wiille Brown hnca 1 right. Me and h 1 was fightin’ n the cellar most o' the time. Baltimore American: ‘“And now, ladles and gentiemen,” sald the lecturer, ““you are about to witness the most thrillihg specta- cle ever presented in the arena. I would re%\lfll that Nu kindly maintain silence frain from applauding until the act Senar Recklessio will now Has e mes-eating automobil thres, times around the hlnwlmm Mary—And ald at your birthday New Yofl Bun: “Horattus had just in- vited Spurius Lartius to play 'a game of Dln PODE. Ko Feplied o Ramman, “but abide at tl, rum ‘Side ‘and hold the bn.sfl thee." pnwu {hat the anclents were behind the times, or Spurius would not have shown a preference for whist. MEMORIES OF ONE GONE. ‘The Bookman. lwo-t umo mald with winsome eyes all day through. the uuled looks e0-wise . .| ltho n.klnn chalr, you is none to me, BpmE pmts o s, a8 B Sene aug) ace 1 see l’- t tell of another one. Here where the firelight softly glows, Sheltered and safe apd snug and warm, What to you is the wind that blows, Driving the sleet of the winter storm? Round your head the ruddy light Glints on the gold from your tresses spun, But deep is the drifting Snow tonight Over the head of the other one. Hold me close as you sagely stand, Watching the dying embers shine; Then shall I feel another That nestled once in this hand Poorlittle llAnd. 50 cold and chill, Shut from the lght of stars and sun, m‘"""g,j}‘ withered roses still That the face of the sleeping one. Lgugh, Httle mald, while laugh yoy may, Borrow comes to'us all, I knows | Botter perhaps £or ot to stey Under the drifting snow. Under, the drifting. robe of sn: Sing ull your baby days ars !d.onr at longs for 'the ater one! of mine; For Breakfast For rosy, active “strenuous”, .. health, use the menu advised - by a famous food expert: Some fruit. or supper. A dish of Grape-Nuts, dry and ready cooked, crisp and - fresh from the package. ™™ 4 Rich Cream sows orer. Soft boiled eggs (2) il Postum Coffee, That's enough to rdn you until noon; the food is of selected parts of the grains that rebuild the brain and nerve centers. You will feel ‘‘fit as a lord” on this kind of breakfast. Use the same articles for luncheon