Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 28, 1902, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1902. -_— - - - - - e THE ©OMAHA DAILY BEE E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR PUBLISHED EVERY MORNIN TERMS OF 8U Dally Bee (without Sunc Dally Bee and Su lllustrated bee, Bunday Mee, Un Baturaay Bee, One Year........ Twentleth Century Farmer, One Year.. DELIVERED BY CARRIER Dally Bee (without Bunday), per cop, Dally Bee (without Sunday), per week Dally Bee (inciuding Sunduy), per week Bunday Bee, per copy Evening Bee (without Sunday), p Evening Bee (nciuding bunday week i Complaiits ‘of irrcgularities in deiivery should be addressed 1 City Circulation De- | parument. G SCRIPTION , One Year.$4.00 per 2w 200 | L 1w | | | er week b | per 1 OFFICES. Omaha~The Bee Buildl South Omaha—City Liail Hullding, Twen- ty-ith and M Streets Council Bluffs—10 Pearl Street. Chicago—18i0_Unity Building New York—2% Park Row Bullding. ‘Washington—sul purteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE. Comsunications relating to ne torfal matter should be addressed: Bee, Editorial Department BUS LETTERS, Business letters and remittances should be uddressed’ The Bee lubilshing Com- pany, Omaha REMITTANCES. Remit by drait, express or postal order, Blyllde to The Bee Publishing Company, nly 2-cent stamps ncurhu in payment of mail accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. s and edi- Omaha STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, #s: George B. Tzschuck, secretary "of Bee Publishing Compuny, being duly sworn, | says that the actual number of full and complete coples of The Dally, Morninz, Evening and Bunday bee printed auring | the month of October, 1% was as follows: 20 21,450 he EEEEEES Total ... . Less unsold and returned coples. Net total sales. 869,615 | 0,872 | JRGE B. HUCK. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this Sist day of October, A. D., 1902 M. B. HUNGATE, (Beal.) Notary Public. Perhaps the robbers are opposed on | economic grounds to western banks car- eylng such lurge reserves, Mascagni has secured another man- mger, but it is not so certain that the wmanager has secured Mascagnl. The lengthening list of Thanksgiving fay marriage licenses indicates that many people still prefer to double up celebrations on one day. Chamberlain may find out before he returns from South Africa that it s as difficult for the British to govern the Boers as it was to whip them. ermTmm—— ‘The burning of the Union Pacific. store- house made a beautiful midnight spec- tacle, but Omaha would prefer to do without such pyrotechnical displays. The Chilcago professor's theory of get- ting rich out of savings from a $300 salary has a very academic flavor. It ‘will hardly stand the hard knocks of the world of fact. { Talk about making Sioux Falls a pack- Ing center scems to have been dropped since the recent revival there of the divorce business on a scale more mag- fificent than ever. The next important state convention Omaha will be called upon to entertain Is. that of the Nebraska Real Estate assoclation. The real estate men should be given a taste of the real thing. Some members of the coming legisla- ture have an ambitious program of leg- Islation. If they put through half the | bills they will carry with them to Lin- coln, they will have @ busy sesslon in- deed. v EE— 1t the political account is not yet bal- | anced, perhaps Spellbinder Guriey might | be employed again by the Unlon Pactfic to hold an inquest on the fire that has Just destroyed part of Its repair shops | in this city. After the state coprts get throngh with | the. university viotérs at Iown City ihe attendance at that institution of learn- | ng will probably be sotiewhat redaced, | but the peace and safety of the remain der will correspondingly. gaiu. Thanksgiving charity collections at the schools this year have brought un- precedented responses. It is a paradox in philanthropy that- the time when | people are the wost able aud williug to | give is just the tlme when there are tewer people who need help. It Is suggested that the eruption of the voleano Santa Maria may prove a blessing ‘In - disgulse by fertiliziug the land for the benefit of the natives of Panama. The averuge American farmer, | bowever, - Wwould ‘prefer to take his| chances with Nebraska soil, that re- quires no artiticial or voleanic fertilizer. | While there is no end of complaint of hard times iu Cuba, the official reports show that the people of Porto Rico are prosperous and are rapidly developing their resources. They are contented with the results of American govern- ment. The Cubaus, on the contrary, are bothering themselves more about who Is to rule than how they should rule. It {8 eertain that the recelpts of cattle at South Omaha during the calendar yeéar will nat be far from 1,000,000 bead, thus establishing a new high record. Not only are the transactions of the live stock market here reachiag out Into L will it | the | which the examinations disregard mere ANTI-TRUST GISLATION, While it appears to be the general im- pression that there will be no legislation at the coming séssion of congress deal- Ing with the combinations, there are re- publicans In both branches who believe that there will be action on the recom- mendations the president is expected to make In his annual message. It is under- stood that a number of anti-trust meas- ures will be introduced early In the ses- sion, which will of course be referred to committees, where they may be con- sidered or not, but the expectation Is that there will be a distinctively admin- | tstration bill which the judiclary com- mittees of the senate and house will feel called upon to give prompt consideration to and report upon without unnecessary delny. It Is recognized that legislation on this subject by the present congress will de- pend a good deal upon the attitude of the administration. As to the earnest ness of the president’s desire for legls- lation there is no doubt, but as he said in his speech before the Union League of Phlladelphia, there will be no hasty or reckless action. It is therefore possi- ble that he will not urge legislation at the coming session, though there would seem to be ample time in the ten or eleven weeks to strengthen the Sherman act and at least enact legislation requir- ing publicity on the part of the combi- nations engaged in interstate business. This subject has been so thoroughly discussed and the positibn of the country {In regard to it is 8o fully defined that if the majority in congress is willing to | enact anti-trust leglsiation it showa ve able to do so before the close of the | Fifty-seventh congress. The republican leaders must certainly understand that public sentiment on this | question will not brook unjustifiable de- lay in dealing with it. The feeling is very strong that the lawless combina- tions should not be given another year of exploitation and exaction if it be in | the power of congress, as asserted by At- torney General Knox and other able lawyers, to restrain them. “Time may be needed for making the solution per- fect,” sald Mr. Roosevelt, “but it is idle to tell the people that we have not the power to solve such a problem as that of exercising adequate supervision over the great industrial combinations ef today. We have the power and we shall find out the way. We have firmly made up our minds that a solution, and a right solution, shall be found, and found it be.” If the republican leaders in congress will in this spirit address them- selves to the consideration of the prob- lew there will be legislation at the com- ing session which will satisfy the people of the sincerity of thé party promise to regulate and restrain the great com- Dbinations. ———————— DEFECT OF C1ViL SERVICE TESTS. The annual repért of the examining department of the Civil Service com- mission shows the vast extent to which the competitive system has been ap- plied to the federal patronage, compris- ing now the overwhelming majority of cl«rlcql places of fmportance. That the change from the old unmitigated spoils system, a change so great as to amount to a revolution, has been of incalculable beunefit to the public service and to:pub- lic morals is beyond dispute. Nevertheless, complaint is. made, ap- parently with justice, that methods of examination on the classified service fall far short of being satisfactory tests of the efficlency and merit-of the compet- ing candidates. One of the chief faults 1s the disproportlonate value credited to mere scholastic’ attainments In com- parison with practical experience in the line of the particular functions to be performed. It actually happens In in- nunerable instances that the less fit can- didates will receive, because of superior hpok knowledge, the ‘higher markings on the eligible Hst and thus Dbave precedence for appolutment. For the numbrous - class of junlor clerkships in postoffices scholastic at- tainments beyond a certain minimum of fair English. education are not the most fmportant qualification, and yet in the examinations they are given first con- slderation, when quickuess of eye, man- ual dexterity and many other gaalifica- tions, for which the civil service exam- inations provide no adequate tests, are really more Impogtant. The competitive system, defective as may be, i& still to be counted.an inestimabie boon in having seut the political - heeler and spoilsman to the rear. No good citizen would dream of cutting the dyke which las stemmed tide of favoritism and arbitrary spoliation. But it is susceptible of fur- ther improvement by reform of éxami- nation tests. The beginning lias indeed already Dbeen .made. in those brauches which, like the patent office work, re- quire speclal’ or 'expert” skill aund for general book knowledge. When tais prin ciple is applied generally to tue tests for clerical work In the classified servive, there will be litfle room for epmplaint. AREHUUSE PLAN. General Ludington's recommendation that before erecting the new quartermaster’s storage warchouse at Omaha, for which cungress made an appropriation at its last session, a com- prehensive plan should be ‘adopted for & series of army 'storage warehouses at strategic points stretching across the country, should gppeal to the business sense of the community. What General Ludington says about the necessity for such storage warchouses. as demon- strated by the difficulties encountered in gathering supplies at the outbreak of the Spanish-American war, is re- enforced by the demands of the army distributed through the. country on its present peace footing. That Omaha must be an fmportant link in the chain quarters, all give this city peculiar em- phasis as an army base of supplies Although he does not say so outright, | General Ludington intimates that the additional land required to erect a stor- age warehouse of the character he con templates should be purchased by the city or its business men and presented to the government. It may be advisable | to pursue this plan, but why the people {of Omaha should be expected to buy 1and for the government, which it is| {amply able to pay for itself, s not quite clear. | The army storage warehouse will be quite acceptable, but in the interval the | project for an army supply purchasing depot should not be allowed to go by the | board. The storage warehouse will be of comparatively little benefit to Omaha Jobbers and business men unless the army supplies are also purchased here. While the storage warehouse will give employment to a few additional people, the handling and distribution of army supplies purchased here for the whole department would add much more ma- terially to the working force, and indi- rectly redound to the benefit of our re- tail trade. If our people will only look to their interests in thgt direction the importance of Omaha from a military standpoint is destined to constant and steady growth. | { | | | | | THE DECLINE IN SILVER. The steady fall in the price of silver presents a situation that may consider- ably disturb international exchange, un- less the decline should be arrested. Of course the countries chiefly affected are those having a silver currency, as Mex- ico and the Philippines, for example, in both of which the decline of the white metal has unsettled values and produced unfavorable business conditions. All | countries having trade with China must experience more or less disturbance of that trade If silver continues to decline, though it will have no effect financially upon the gold standard countries. Thus the United States not being a purchaser of silver the price of the metal as a com- modity will have no effect upon the gen- eral financlal situation here. 1t is a condition that appeals strongly to the silver-standard countries to change the basis of their monetary system. Siam has just adopted the gold standard and closed its mints to the free coinage of sllver. The Mexican government has for some time been considering the ex- pediency of adopting the gold standard, but there Is a good deal of popular op- position to doing this. As a large pro- ducer of silver, Mexico has a reason for clinging to the silver standard some of the other countries bad pot, but under existing circumstances it is manifestly to the disadvantage of that country to maintain the silver standard. As the Mex- fcan dollar declines all imported goods become more expensive, more slowly the prices of domestic goods rise and most slowly of all the wages of labor rise and the working pop- ulation suffers in the meantime. A ‘good deal of the Mexican debt s held abroad and the move silver drops the more dol- lars are required to weet the obligations, A fluctuating rate of exchange intro- Guces additional risk in foreign business, which necessarily operates unfavorably to the foreign commerce of the country. The concern of the United States In the situation has reference to the Phil- Ippines and should strongly impress upon congress the urgeut necessity for a change there to a stable currency. A recent report states that silver from Ohina 18 pouring into Manila and “the rapidly chauging rates embarrass the business houses, making It algost im- possible to fix prices. The native ofli- clals ave petitioning for the payment of thelr salaries in gold und the demand for a fixed stable currency is universal'” It is expected there will be a reaction and | silver will rise once wore, but it is un- likely that it will recover its former value or rise permanently. At all events con- gress should lose no time in providing | rewedial financial legislation for the Philippines and the only safe policy s to give the islands the gold standard, as was proposed by the house of representa- tives and rejected by the senate. g The report of the auditor of the l‘o:‘l-l qffice department makes a poor showing for the money order branch. 1ts bnsi- ness is done at a net loss certain to in- | crease in the future unless methods are | changed. The banks and express com-| panies are taking the patronage because they give better service than the gov- ernment. The methods in vogue in the money order department are antiquated, | It will be necessary to assimilate woucy orders more to commercial paper if they dre not to lose popularity euntire e , The dearth of cowpetent school teach- ers in lowa is easily explainable. The | average wage for country schook teach- | ers, which is only about $31, is insutfi-| cient to command competent persons. When a farn laborer receives a larger wage than those who are entrusted with the public education it i8 no wonder that thie ranks of the school teachers are thiuning. The public will simply have to submit to a lower standard of talent or advance the scale of compen- sation. | | { It is refreshing to find that out in Colfzx county the usual tactics of the rallroads to beat their taxes in Nebraska has run amuck in the district court, where a petition on behalf of the Unlon Pacific for an injunction to prevent the collection of taxes on its property there has been refused. The courts have alto- gether too often been accessories to the rallroad tax shirking and where they stand up for the rights of the ordinary property owner they deserve commen- dation. —— Omaba has not had a singie big foot when this plan is carried out goes without saying. Its location midway a wider field, but more cattle are belng between the lakes and the Rockies and ball game this season, notwithstanding the fact that it has always given good of the State university who maintain constant interest in the athletic fortunes of that institution. Since the annexation of the medical school Omaba can also claim to furnish part of the site for the | State university and to have acquired the right to be considered in the distrl- | bution of athletic events. It 1s to be| hoped that the managers of the Intercol leglate contests will not overlook these facts when they make up their schedules in the future. Too Much Exercise. Indianapolls News. The United States Civil Service com- mission will endeavor to convince the let- ter carriers that they get enough exercise by carrying letters, and are not benefited by perniclous political activity. Money for a Lost Cause. Kansas City Journal. It develops that Mr. Bryan contributed | $600 to the democratic campalgn fund and $750 to the Populist campalgn fund. For a man who was not a candidate for any- thing, that sounds decidedly plutocratie. Practices What He Preaches. Cleveland Leader. There seems to be no doubt that Presi- dent Roosevelt will ask congress to leg- islate against the tru He declared not 1dng since that he never advocated in a speech anything he did not intend to do. Everybody knows, therefore, where he stands on the trust question. Expecting Too Much. Brooklyn Eagle. Perhaps our postal authorities are right in refusing to extend the rural free deliv- ery. It is as ensy for John Jones to come down from his cabin in the mountains when | he wants his mall as it is for the postman to ride a dozen miles to Jones' cabin. When people run oft to the woods they mustn't expect theaters. Ornamental, If Not Useful. Indlanapolls News. That highly important part of the na- tional armament, officer: swords, have been provided by the War department in three lengths, to suit the various official statures. So any nation whose kennels contain dogs of war had better be careful about letting them slip or there: may be trouble. Colonel Mosby's Operations. Indianapolis Journal.s Colonel John 8. Mosby of confederate cav- alry fame and now special agent of the United States land department is doing good work in Nebraska by compelling the removal of fences by which cattle barons had {llegally appropriated millions of acres | of Uncle Sam's domain. It is sald the| throwing open of the lands illegally in- closed will give an impetus to immigra- tion. Words Full of Truth, Baltimore American. “The man Who neglects his political du- ties because politics {8 too dirty for him is | just as much a criminal as the man who neglects to drain a cesspool that has | threatened his family, because it is ill- smelling.” These wards of the National Grange are full of (ruth. If politics i dirty, It is the duty of every. good citizen | to try to cleanse it, not to stand aloof and allow it to get dirtier than it was before. Vermont Weary .of Bootlegging. Philadelpfid’ Press. Vermont goes ah¢ad carefully in the matter of granting Tivefides to sell liquor. It can only e dons farébr the people have voted on the subjecty;; A bill has already passed the legislature which will be sub- mitted to & populaf vote during the winter. The bill provides for an annual referendum on the ffcensing of saloons, sets @ minimum fee of $500 for & general license and a maximim fee of $1,200, and provides for a $250 ‘lcense to sell fers mented liquors. Thefe is an anti-treating clause. If the bill is approved by the people ite operation will be watched with | great Interest, as some of its features have not worked well elsewhere, particularly the clause providing for 'two classes of lcenses. On the Right Track. Minneapolls Times, Those Nebraska Indlans who want the exclusive Inflian schools abolished and their children sent to the regular public schools | to mingle with white children are on the right track. Their complaint that their children cannot acquire the proper spirit of civilization when segrogated, and that such segregation makes them feel as If they were regarded as an Inferior race, Is well taken. Possibly the white children would object to mingling in school with the reds, but such objection s not likely to be very general. There is less objection among whites to personal assoclation with Indians | —If the latter are reasnably clean—than to negroes; and yet negro children are re- celved in the public schools of the great majority of the northern states. — LONG REPUBLICAN LEAD, Start for 1904 Gives Heasonable As- surance of Vietory. St. Louls Globe-Democrat The disputed counts In the few doubtful congressional distrfots are now shaping | themselves in such a way that the house leaders can make thelr figures with some | confidence, There will be 208 republicans | in the house which was recently elected, and which will come Into existence nest | year, as compared with 178 democrats. The republican majority will thus be thirty. Majority and plurality in this caes !s same, because all the members will classified as republicans or demoo: This is the way that all of them clai themselvee. In the present house the republicans have a majority of forty. This is the house which was elected with McKinley and Roosevelt in 1900. The house elected fn the presidential year always has a larger majority for the president's party than does the one which is chosen two years later. Sometimes the second house goes against the president's party. In all cases that party loses many yotes in the mid- presidential term congressional election. It will be noticed that the loss this time was very small. The republicans are to be congratulated on the fine exhiblt which they made in the recent election. The elimination of the populists, the sliverites, the independents and the mon- descripts In general from the house of representatives will be satisfactory (o the people as a whole, and will removs an element of confusion from the elec- tion figures. Henceforth, for a short time, at least, there will be only two parties in elections, A person will have to call him- self a republican or & democrat. True, in 1904 there may be two or three sorts of democrats running for office, but that is an embarrassment which s two years off at leust. For the time, at any rate, there will be only two parties in the country, and the country can readily “place” every- body. The long lead which the republicans have gained In an election in which thero was & good deal of apathy on the repub- lican side shows the strength of the party support to college coutests here iu the produced within the reglon naturally |its special advantages as a rallway dis- | past. We do not believe this Is falr to tributary, aud a steadily increasing pro- | tributing center, together with the fact|the lovers of the sport in this city, who poftion of them are being shipped here. | that it s the military depertment bead- | lnclude & large number of the alumul with the American people. The outlook for | would seem that | a private corporation with an evident ap- | sissippl. | qualities within them will find those earn- DESPOILING UNCLE SAM. Facts About the Frandulent Occupn- tion of Public Lands. Chicago New The facts regarding the fraudulent occu- pation of public lands which Secretary Hitcheock of the Interior department pre- sents in his annual report are interesting and suggestive. The magnitude of the ter- ritory which they show to be involved would itself strike the imagination, but still more curious Is the peculiarly helpless attitude which they disclose the United States gov- ernment to be occupying'in its relation to uninvited tenants of the public domain. It Uncle Sam has been the vietim of predatory excursions planned on a majestic scale and executed with unprece- dented impudence. In a single year an area embracing 3,052,844 acros has been fenced in by land-grabbers who have camped on the public domain and made it useful for their own purposes. One modest gentleman with a taste for ranching fenced in more than 60,000 acres and has held it in defiance of law and authority. In New Mexico alone preciation of the splendid opportunities for encreaching on public ground inclosed 1,079,000 acres and hus refused to quit the premises or remove its fences. It it were not for the fact that the seizure of land is really a gigantic swindle there would be something ludicrous in the spec- tacle of & powerful government being held up in this free-and-easy manner by greedy trespassers. The remarkable thiug about it is that these persons would liesitate a long time before undertaking to despoil individual property owners in this way and If they should attempt to do 5o would be brought speedily to justice. It would seem to be high time for the authorities at Wash- ington to take such action as will make land-grabbing a less popular and profitable undertaking. Although more -than 19,488, 000 acres of public lands were disposed of last year there remains an area of 525,000, 000 acres of public domain west of the Mis- Doubtless the temptation afforded by this vast territory will lead to further encroachments. Secretary Hitchcock points out that the pending bill providing for the lease of lands at 2 cents an acre for ten years, with the privilege of renewal, Is but a scheme to turn the land to the uses of private monopoly. It is time for Uncle Sam to stop playing the role of simple- minded vietim of hold-up men. TRUST MAGNATES ALARMED, Legisintion Against Combin Frightens Promoters. Baltimore American. The maintenance of republican control of congress h led to the general belief that important anti-trust legislation is inevit- able, Wall street shows evidences of a similar conviction, because the purely spec- ulative element are unloading their hold- ings of the big industrials’ stock. A close observation of these stock market move- ments will disclose to the public the cor- porations which are really trusts. Wall street dealers are not sentimentalists. Neither are they stubborn. They may talk one way about an absent proposition, but when face to face with its actual presence they are certaln to act as their keen judg- ment dictates. It will be g0 in this instance. The big financlers have insisted that there are no trusts in existence. They have repeatedly | assured the public that the varfous com- binations are invulnerable. It will now be seen whether they meant what they sald. Since anti-trust legislation is inevitable, every corporation which has violated the anti-trust principle will be affected by the new congréssiohal enactments. The Wall street crowd knows what constitutes a trust and will be very wary accordingly, All those combinations which have se- cured their earnings by virtue of the trust ings somewhat reduced when they are right- eously curbed. This curtailment in earn- ings will make their securities less va uable. Indeed, some of the stocks will be rendered absolutely valueles: Wall street realizes that, for which reason Wall street will make a diligent study of the {ndustrial list. It will be found that every corpora- | tion which bears the least taint of “trust- | ism"” will become exceedingly unpopular | with the bull crowd. An unloading process will develop. Wise men will hasten to rid themselves of the trust stocks at once be- fore the decline becomes so, great as to | make the losses severe. The companles whose plan of organization brings them | furthest within the ideas which constitute a trust will be the first and sharpest suf- ferérs. An observation of the stock market, then, will be a key to the financial crowd's judg- ment as to the varlous trusts. Speculators will sell those shares which anti-trust leg- jelation is most likely to disturb. The weakest Industrial securities, as a conse. quence, will reflect Wall street's estimate as to Its vulnerability. Though Wall street leaders in the past have denied that any of the big enterprises are trusts, it will be found, nevertheless, that they will be the firet to be completely rid of the sue- pected trust stocks before the hour of legislation arrives. | to make this'a true metropolis. ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK. Ripples on the Current of Life in the Metropelis. A census of the attendance at the churchee of Manhattan during the first three Sundaye of November presents an in- teresting study of the religious life of { Gotham. The returns show that on the | 1sland of Manhattan there are 366 places of public worship and a church member- ship of 695,042, The actual attendance a these places, including all service er- | aged for the first three Sundays of Novem- | ber, 451,631 adults. Of this number 139,991 were men | "As the total population of Manhattan fe- land is 1,931,162, of which 482,973 are per- sons under 1,445,189 adults, of whom 996,558 stay at home in these sunshiny November Sunday: Total attendance, 134 were at tant and 317484 at Roman Catholic places of worehip. These figures show a Protest- ant attendance of 77 per cent of claimed membership as against 60.75 per cent of claimed membership In the Catholic church. The report says that more men | than women attend | services, while in the Roman Catholic places of worship the women worshipers are far the more numerous. It appears from the comparison of the figures that were obtained from each place of worship that the small churches show & much higher percentage of attendance than | the large churches. In scores of cases, it 1s said, churches with memberships of 100 to 200 have attendances that exceed the memberships. When the membership gets up into the thousands, the attendance does not increase proportionately. That, it is explained, counts in large measure for the fact that the Roman Catholic, Episcopal and Presbyterian denominations, with their large churches, fall in percentage attend- ance far short of the Methodists, Discle ples and others with smaller churches. Svery day,” writes the New York oor- respondent of the Philadelphia Ledger, “there is some new and vivid {llustration of extraordinary changes. It is not alone in architecture that there has been prog- ress, although such. a structure as the new Hanover Bank building, ncw nearing com- pletion, would have seemed a marvel to the inhabitants of two decades ago, and the splendid Chamber of Commerce bulldin dedicated last week, would have been im: possible of achlevement then. The mer- chants would not be able and willing to put their hands in thelr pockets for the $1,500,000 this bullding costs without any direct financial return, “The laying of the corner-stone of the new public library, the commencement of the great Cathedral ot St. John the Divine, the reconstruction of Columbia university, the building of the underground railroad, the beginning of three new bridges and two East river tunnels, the plans for the $50,000,000 Pennsylvania terminal—all these are works beyond the power or conception of the New York of 1880, although now undertaken with confidence and ability. “But there have been changes in other directions: In Wall street, in the expan- | sion of business which fs putting New York alongside of London as an finternational market; in music, which will make the opening of the grand opera mext Monday an event of International interest, for New York now bas the best music in the world; in the drama, which makes possible the presentation of .such a play as Heyse's “Mary of Magdala,” that public opinion twenty years ago would probably not have permitted on the stage because of its cen- tral character of the Bible; in politics, which in two decades developed an extra- ordinary independent vote, constituting the balance of power in elections: in soctety, which makes possible the brilliant spectacle of the horse show, in which the fashion of the whole nation is on its annual parade In commerce, which has grown so rapldly that representatives of the leading govern- ments of Burope were glad to take part in the recent celebration of the chamber of commerce, in art, which is bringing many ot the treasures of Europe fnto the museums and galleries of New York and creating here an ‘art ‘atmosphere,’ 60 much needed There can be no doubt of the sincerity of Prince Hans of Pless when in his words of parting he spoke in admiration of what he saw here.” One of the 'contractors of work on the subway estimates that at least 4,000 red- | globed lanterns are hung out in this city every night to prevent people from falling Into the excavations. The 'lanterns are stored during the day in big chests at in- tervals along the streets where the subway 18 being built, and are attended by watch- men who work in three shifts. Those who come on in the afternoon ll and clean and light them, and suspend them from the nalls on the fences that have been built about the holes in the streets. Each watch- man has a district, which he patrols and watches as carefully as & policeman does his beat. ““A quaint memory of old days, when New York was a much smaller town than at present, kept alive at St. John's chapel in Varick street,” says the New York All of this 18 & compliment to the repub- | lMean party. It is a very conclusive bit of | evidence that the financial explolters of the country expect the republicans to protect the public against the ravages of the trus The anger of the trust magnates | «hows that they count the republican party as the champfon of the people in this im- | portant - struggle. No wonder Belshazzar | is enraged at the prospective interference | with his feast. Tuesday's victory for the republicans was like an ominous hand- writing on the wall to the tyrants of in- dustrialism. PERSONAL NOTES, When the corporations ralse wages the consumer pays the freight. Sir Charles Dilke says the United States fs slow. No one ever sald that ofe Dilke when -he was younger. Dr. Edward Stelper of Richmond, Ind., 1s to go to Russia to become biographer of Count Leo Tolstol, at the request of the author himself. The captain of the Harvard eleven is not aying ‘much, according to the Boston pa- pers. But he will when the doctors remove the bandages from his jaw. The famous law firm of Foraker, Outcalt, Granger & Prior of Cincinnati will dissolve on December 1. Senator Foraker wishes to devote all his time to Washington. The new Swiss minister, Mr. Du Math- eray, who has recently been appointed to Washington, is said to be young and good looking. His first post as minister was at Vienna, where his excellent appearance coupled with his many accomplishments, not the least of which is grace in dancing, won him much favor. So popular was he that when he was transferred to Rome, it is sald, he found soclal life in the eternal city too slow. ‘General Basil Duke is supposed to be about the most absent-minded man in Ken- tacky. He has been known to pass hie wife In the street without recognizing her. A short time ago the general's son, who had been away for some time, returned to Loulsville and boarded a street car for home. At the mext corner the general got Evening Post. “This is the Leake Dole ot Bread, an examplo of old-fashioned alms- giving at the church door, never seen in these days of organized charities. The dole dates back to 1792, when John Leake, the wealthy philanthropist, who was one of the founders of the Leake & Watts Orphan asylum, died, leaving among other bequests the sum of £1,000 at Interest, to be ‘lald out In sixpenny wheaten loaves of bread and distributed te such poor of Trinity parish a8 appear most deserving’ The distribu- 5 years of age, there remain | Protes- | the Congregational | tion was to take place every Saturday and it has been so performed for more than & century. In 1855 the distributing station was removed from Trinity church to St. John's chapel, where it is likely to remain until the old church, once the most fash- fonable In town, {8 swept away. There is & great deal of poverty in tho parish and the bread is really needed. It is now given regularly to about nineteen familics, some of whom are blessod with eight or nine children. Aged widows are on the list, to whom the two loaves are almost lterally the staff of life. The bread has been made for twenty years or more by the same parish baker." | Detalls of a Handwriting Expert trust have been exposed through the fling In the office of Controller Grout of a protest against the payment of the bill of Daniel | T. Ames, one of the experts In the second trial of Roland B, Molineux. Mr. Ames was under subpoena for twenty-ome days at a compensation of $50 & day, and Wil- llam 8. Kinsley, who was one of the ex- perts in the first trial, has requested the | controller to withhold the payment of the | money until his rights have been investi- | gated. According to the statement filed by Mr. Kinsley, he and Mr. Ames and a former partner of the latter executed an agreement by which a division of territory was made. Mr. Ames at that time, which was subsequent to the first Molineux trial, had decided to remove to San Franclsco. He was to have the “first call" on all cases arising west of Chicago, and the others were to have those n the east. In the event that one should be called into the territory of the other the fees were to be divided, share and share alike, MIRTHFUL REMARKS, Baltimore Amerfcan: “Drink and bad company go together," observed the police magistrate. “Yes, it brought me before yo swered the culprit. Chicago Tribune: Miss Howjames (of Boston)—Don't you delight in Dante, Mr. Cahokia? Mr. Cahokla—~Well, I should murmur! We're going to have him at the werld's fair in New York Times: Tourist—Land pretty fertile around here? Western Farmer—Wal, yer ses them telo- fi?’n’i poles? Wal, 1as’ week they was only hitol n' posts! Detroit Free Press: Kind Lady—I sup- pose you have seen better days? Tramp—Yes'm. One day last week I got three dinners and ten beers. Cleveland Plain Dealer: “The gentleman who talks 80 loud 1s a member of the Mas- sachusetts Peace soclety. “‘What is he finding fault about?" ‘'He says the country never will submit to having a Cannon in the speaker's chair.” Chicago Poet: “Yes,” remarked the so- clety woman who was ambitius for stellar honors, “I would go on the stage if it were not for one thing.” s “What's that?" “I don't seem to be able to stir up any sort of a sensational row with my hus- band.” Town Topics: The Judge—Did . Colonel Bluegrass notity you of his objections ver- ally? The Major—Well, peraps it might better be called adjectively. Philadelphia Press: “Beg pardon,” sald the plain young woman in the throng of matines girls surrounding Mr. Boothington rutt. “Ah!" interrupted the popular actor, gra- clously, “and I suppose you want my auto- graph, too?"’ ““Ye#, at the bottom of a check, if it's I'm trying to collect, this worth ‘anything. little bill of Goodman, “the tallor.” BIRD'S-EYE REFLECTIONS, The tower-clock Is ticking. out Interminable seconds; Impatiently T turn abous Above the whirr of whee Move faster! but it beckon: Never—never. Depressed, my eyes divert, when hey find the tower windows, And as lheY o'er the house-tops then In meditation skim, again *The slowly ticking thing goes: Never—never. My eyes are resting on the site Our_Auditorium_should Long since have graced. Iask: When might It be? Hear I the answer right This wheezy clock-work cooed: Never—never, The much-disputed market hall Makes quite as snail-llke progress; 1 wonder, will it come at al To_grace (?) our Av'nue Capitol? Two ticks sum up the bus'ness: Never—never. The U. P. stacks in huge design The question-mark are smoking: Wil Burt the strike-knot cut in time To move the crops along his linet= (I'm sure the clock 18 joking)= Never—never. I see the gleaming ralls and smooth (1) On streets in all the city; Each street a rail-way is, forsooth— Our birthright, which théy robbed in youth Of equal rights. What pity?— Never—never, My eves are blinded by the smoke vhich, belched from thousand chimneys, Pollutes’ the alr with fumes fo choke The sick, the well; its noxious stroke Spares none. When end these mis'Hes?— Never—never, Ak-Sar-Ben's den squats in the north, Ashamed, ungainly, ugly, uite consclous of the feers called forth f_thoughtless ones at its poor worth: Can't Bamson house move snugly 7— Never—never. ee & wilderness of roof, As far as visions span; Of sturdy growth substantial proof; Of teeming, throbbing streets the woof; But ever a policeman ?— Never—never. Life's battle wages flercely there. Tho' roar and din, ascending, Are softened ere théy reach my ear, That vaguely discord I but hear. Clock! will It have no ending ?— Never—never. Omaha, Neb. A. Y, MARSCHNER. §\\UI‘I!Illllllll!lllllllilllfl IR I Look young A genuine hair hair, makes the stores color. Vi ow its growth 1904 is bright enough to suit the most sanguine as well as the most pessimistic of republicans, 1f there be any republicans of the latter sort, on and the young man rose and extended his band. His father shook It heartily and sald: “How are you this moraiug, and bow is your fatber?™ ™. e ) Sl All draggists. J. My hair was very short before I used Ayer's Hair It is now four inches below my waist, and s due to Mrs. Ed. Masure, iy 0 \\ AL | [ l #f ) Y N i Jn \‘)(‘ (.\ Gray hair, thin hair, short hair. Hair poverty, pride Look old at forty. Dark hair, heavy hair, long hair, Hair riches, "hair pride, "hair style. verty,style poverty. at sixty, The difference? 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