Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 2, 1902, Page 6

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Washington—01 Fourtecnth Street CORRESPONDENCE ve and edl- Communications relating to ne Omaha torlal matter should be addressed: Bee, Editorial Department BUSINESS LETTERS. Business lett and remittances .Ihfvulll be addressed Bee Publishing Com- pany, Omaha. REMITTANC Remit by draft, express or postal order, ayable to The Bee Publishing Company. Bn‘y 2-cent stamps accepted in payment of mall accounts. Personal checks, except on Omaha or eastern exchange, not accepted. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPAN he BTATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, 8s.: George B. Tzschuck, secretary of The Bee Pu‘fllshing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual number of tull and| complete coples of The Dally, Morning, Svening and Sunday Bee printed during the month of November, 132, was as follows: 1 81,470 18, .28,485 2 ..29,450 17 3 31,060 18, 4. 81,350 19, b. 20, 8. 21, 1. 2. 80,840 2 9. ..29,675 10. 31,300 1. 30,070 30,700 80,820 30,730 ..81,810 ‘Total Less unsol Net total sales. Net average sales. GEORGE . TZSCHUCK. ubscribed in my presence and sworn to | betore me this Soth day of November, A. D. | M. B. HUNGATE, “?’l'ul) Notary Public. A good train robber, Jike a good In- dian, is a dead ome. Blessed are those who do not expect too much from congress. l President Roosevelt iwith his little message now has the floor. The coal dealer has not been able to get In much work as yet In this vicinity, but his day is sure to come. | Rest easy that there will be no trouble In passing through congress a bill to de- fray the expenses of the coal strike commission. ‘What Omaha needs {s more mills and factories to furnish employment for wage workers. Whatever hastens this development will help assure the future of greater Omaha. Ei——— The strenuousness of the life of the Boer leaders i magnified in the light of General Dewet's statement that he had more trouble with traitors than with the British armed forces. The same story: to the effect that Yan- kees have horns which used to be told and believed in the south seems from officlal reports to be in circulation among the Moros in Mindanao. Whatever else may be sald, those sol- diers' widows, according to all accounts, must have enjoyed a very pleasant bas- ket picni¢ when they were taken out to the Alllance land office to make home- stead entries for the benefit of the cattle barons. The positive statements that Senator Hanna would retire from public life at the close of his present term are now as positively denfed by himself. The Ohio senator makes It plain that he does not propose to be removed from the po- ltical map with his consent. 7 The army officers attached to the staff of the Department of the Missouri think they are overworked as vompared with the officers in other military depart- ments. It should be distinctly under- stood, however, that the complaint of @verwork Is comparative only. The federal grand jury now in session here In Omaha has several knotty prob- lems to tickle. It will not be able to make a record this time by simply in- dicting a few white men for selling bad whisky “to good Indins, drawing mile- age and per dlem and adjourning. A mewly Installed Omaha preacher wants to abolish the double standard of conduct that applies one test to the pas- tor and another to the parishioner. He does not say, however, whether the test for the parishioner should be extended to the pastor or the pastor's code made universal. ——— No artificlal preservative will save the National Salt company, commonly known as the salt trust. It started out a few years ago with flying colors, but overcapitalization and bad management have put its affairs in irremediable plight, so that nothing remains but for the recelvers to wind thew up. e——m—mpe——— The result of a conference of & num- ber of leading republican senators proves that there will be strong opposition to the omnibus bill for the admission of Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma. If, announced, Senators Hale, Allison, Aldrich, Platt, Cullom, Lodge, Hanna and Beveridge are all opposed to the bill, It will be exceedingly difficult to pass it at the short session even If a majority of the senate is really for it » GROWTH OF IRRIGATION. The blennial report of the state engi- neer shows that over 2,000,000 acres of land in Colorado are now under lrriga- tion. The showing will be surprising in the non-irrigating _reglons, where the tmpression produced by ‘reports of high- flown oratory at ifrigation conventions and advertising prospectuses has un- doubtedly been to discredit actual achlevements. But here we bave the significant fact that a single western state, mainly within a decade, has prac- tically added to Its cultivable territory the equivalent of four average counties. This remarkable result has . been reached under many dificulties. The condition of legislation, both state and national, has been exceedingly unsatis- tactory, and has greatly discouraged the investment of capital on a large scale in frrigation enterprises. Conflict of claims to water rights like that now be- ing litigated between Colorado and Kan- sas has in extensive districts proved an insurmountable obstacle to private ini- tlative. These difficulties, however, are steadily diminishing or entirely disap- pearing. The act of congress at the last session has not only cleared the way for comprehensive and rational dealing with tie subject, but also given ah im- portant impetus to actual irrigation de- velopment. The statement of the mere number of acres of arid land reclaimed by artificial water supply in Colorado falls far short of suggesting the immense gain involved to that commonwealth. Every irrigated |acre is the subject of. intense cultiva- tion which, for the production of fruft, vegetables and grain and many staple products renders it the equivalent of many average acred in regions that de- pend wholly on rainfall. Irrigation, in short, has already made Colorado not merely a mining state, but one of widely diversified industries. The cold statistics show that réclama- tion of arld western lands 1is going | steadily forward, and nothing can be more certain than that the rate of prog- ress will be far more rapld in the fu- ture, y S —— CRUP STATISTICS CUNTROVERSY. There are indications of sensational developments In the controversy regard- ing the crop statisties of the Agricultural department and the Census bureau. It is stated that the director of the bureau has plans under consideration for bring- ing matters to a head in a way that will cause surprise to some, but in regard to the nature of the plans the officials of the Census bureau observe the utmost secrecy. It Is surmised, however, that certain disclosures will be made tending to show that the crop statisticlan of the Agricultural department has at least not been as careful as he should have been in his method of obtaining reports of acreage and crops, with the necessary result that the Wepartment statistics have been very Inaccurate and mislead- ing. There are also intimations of a more serious nature, but these are im- probable and may safely be disregarded. There is evidently substantial ground for a thorough Inyestigation of this mat- ter, and it would seem to be the duty of congress to authorize it. The wide discrepancy between the crop statistics of the Agricultural department and those of the Census bureau is conclusive as to a faulty method of obtalning these sta- tistics on the part of ome or the other, and it ought to be possible to ascertain where the fault exists and provide a correction. The importance of having crop statistics as nearly accurate as pos- sible is obvious and the present contro- versy should result in greatly improving this branch of public work. S————— THE ARM1 AND NAVY. There {8 a good deal of popular inter- est in the army and pavy and this should be encouraged, for upon these depend our security and peace. The United States does not need a large standing army. The present regular force is ample. But it 18 expedient to have a citizen soldlery so well organ- ized and disciplined as to be available whenever an emergency shall arise and this is earnestly recommended in the report of the secretary of war. This recommends legislation that will enaDle the government to put at least a quarter of a million of men into the fleld in- stantly upon the declaration of war. There certalnly can be no reason- able objection to‘this. For a nation of nearly 80,000,000 people a force of state militia or national guard of 250, 000 is not excessive, It would constitute no menace to the le, but on the contrary would constitute a secur- ity for domestic peace and at the same time a source of dé] nse In the event of a foreign war. ‘Auother recommenda- tion of the report of the secretary of war is the creation 'of a general staff and there is no doubt that this will ulti- mately be done, though'it is not'likely that the recommendation will be adopted at the present sesslon of congress, the opposition to this change from the old order which defeated the proposition at the first sesslon belug undoubtedly still strong enough to prevent favorable a tion at this sesslon. As to the navy, the secretary rightly says that the country approves the strengthening of our sea power. There {are not many Intelligent Americans, it Is safe to say, who do not belleve that it |18 wise to go“em building up the navy among the nations. The way to main- tain” peace and honor and the world's respect 18 to be well prepared for de- fense and for the just assertion of our rights. The secretary of the navy modest In his recommendations, though he urges the wisdom of continuing to in crease our sea power. How rapjdly this should be done is of course for congress to determine and =o long as that body s under republican control it is safe to say the naval power of the United States will not be permitted to decline. WHAT OMAHA NEEDS. If Omaha is to become a city of 250,000 inhabitants within the next decade, as we are firmly convinced it will, its growth will depend on its ability to fur- nish steady employment at fair wages to a constantly Increasing number of working men and working women. Omaha enjoys wonderful advantages as a distributing center, but it must be more than a mere way station at which trainloads of goods brought from other points are broken up and re-shipped. Omaha has achieved a world-wide rep- utation as one of the principal meat packing places, but its full capacity to transform the cattle, sheep and hogs into food products has not even been tested. Omaha is in the heart of the great corn belt and at the apex of a state rap- idly becoming a great wheat country, but a cereal and flour industry is yet to be developed here. Omaba is the seat of one of the largest sllver and lead refineries In thie world, but aside from its white lead works has not utllized the material at hand for es tablishments that will carry further the processes that produce the finished articles. What Omaha needs to give the stimu- lating impetus in all these fields and many more {8 cheaper power. Whether power I8 secured by exploiting nearby coal flelds or boring oll wells, or using water fall with electrical transmission, is not the essentlal question, except so far as it assures greater cheapness, ampler capacity and rellable supply. Cheap power for Omaha would start at once the wheels of hundreds of new mills and factories. The new popula- tion attracted by the enlarged field of employment would increase the demand for rentable dwellings and add substan- tially to the trade of our retail mer- chants, In turm, the quickening would be speedily felt by investments of every variety, particularly in real estate that awaits an effective demand. Omaha has for years been seeking an opportunity to get cheaper power on rea- sonable terms. It should not let the op- portunity slip away now that it is pre- sented. — ANTEREST IN NEW DEPARTMENT. A great deal of interest is being mani- fested, according to Washington ad- vices, in the proposed Department of Commerce, and there appears to be very favorable promise of the passage at the present session of the bill to create the department. The Indications are that| much of the opposition to'the measure that was developed at the last session has disappeared, and recent reports have shown that there is now no very serious objection in congress to the proposition and that it will not be very vigorously opposed. It has the hearty support of the administration apd will be agam earnestly advocated by the commercial interests. As we have repeatedly sald in regard to the proposed department, there is no valid reason why it should nof be cre- ated and some very good reasons in fa- vor of it. With our rapidly growing commerce it is manifestly desirable that there should be an executive department of the government having the special function of looking after and as far as practicable promoting this commerce. It is proposed, among other things, that a Department of Commerce should have supervision of the consular service, and it 1s belleved that this would be a good thing. 'The bill providing for a new de- partment s in the hands of the house committee on interstate and foreign | commerce, hn’vlng been passed by the senate at the last sesslon. Mr. Hepburn, chairman of the house committee, has manifested a good deal of Interest in the matter and is understood to regard the prospéct as favorable to the passage of the bill. The local democratic organ flles into spasms because it has just discovered that the two republican candidates for district judge at the recent election, who were also endorsed by the democrats, made contributions to the campaign fund. Reading between the lnes, it is plain that the democratic organ is not so much shocked that thesc respected Judges should have put into the repub- liecan contribution box as that they should have falled to have come to the front with an equally liberal donation to the democratic campaign treasury. We have heard of the nonpartisanship of speclal interests that contribute to all | campaign funds at once to make sure that they are protected on both sides of the fence. The next nonpartisan can- didates for office In Omaha might ob- serve this tip. In striking contrast with the situation of Nebraska, the state of Iowa has al- most $1,000,000 in its treasury to the credit of the general fund, which will be materlally increased before the leg- until it shall have reached the power that will absolutely assure defense of our seaports against any foe and the adequate guardianship of our insular pos- sessions and the proteetion of our rights and interests everywhere. The nation could make no greater u e now than to forego the poliey of having a navy capable of meeting any emergency that may arise. While not entering Into rivalry in this respect with any other waritime power, we must not permit ourselves to fall behind all of them and lu:\u endanger or weaken our position islature meets a year hence. Bills pro- viding that interest on state funds should be covered Into the treasury falled at the last session of the Iowa legislature, so that there is a rich rake- off on large deposits of state funds in the bank —— It should not be forgotten that The Bee on the statute books. Fven in the pres- ent year The Bee's right to print these notices under the law has been recog nized without question by the democratic Board of County Commissioners and the democratic city coutell of South Omaha. If there were any question as to The Bee's rights, does anyone Imagine the democratic organ would have falled to assert its claim before these bodles with which it is in political accord? The Milwaukee road, whilg perfectly ready to make any mutually beneficlal arrangements with the Union Pacific, naturally shows unconquerable repug- nance to taking over the difficulties of the latter with its striking employes. The policy of the Milwaukee toward its wage earners has usually been not only cautious, but fair, A society for the suppression of pack- ing house odors is said to be incubating in our mneighboring town of South Omaha, 1If it is desired to enlist the good people of Omaha in the movement a requisition will have to be made on the weather man to furnish a stiff south breeze steadily for a few days. it S— It is gratifying to note that the au- thorities of the lowa State university are co-operating effectively with the peace officers of the state to treat the ringleaders of the recent student out- break the same as General Gomez threatened to treat the Havana rioters. A Matter of Choice. New York World. There's one thing about the tobacco trust. Nobody has to pay tribute te it unless he wants to, A Practical People. Philadelphia. Record. After all that is said of the frivolity of the French, they are an eminently practical people. They have put an end to their coal strike, to the apparent concerned. From Trust Fund to Philadelphia Press. What {s Colonel Bryan doing all this time that Nebraska is proposing to invest some of the surplus money in its state treasury in Massachusetts gold bonds? Ne- braska didn't show much respect for its distinguished citizen when it allowed itself to accumulate a surplus under honest money administration. Mad Mullah of Bacolod. Chicago Chronicle. Our ebullient fellow citizen, the sultan of Bacolod, has broken loose again with the declaration that Americans are hogs who eat hogs. Of course our fellow citizen will have to be brought back to the reservation, but the fluency of his vituperative vocabu- lary indicates that even if he be retired from the sultan business there is still a useful career open to him. He can come to the mother country and edit a reform paper. Novel Case in Court. Philadelphia Record. Bouth Carolina has a case in the supreme court of the United States in which she asks for release from the Internal revenue taxes and licenses on her whisky dispen- saries and distilleries. The claim of South Carolina is chiefly based on the ground that the internal revepue laws apply only to persons and private corporations, and that congress could mot have intended to subject a state to taxation. Should this position be judicially affirmed a state could set up a tobacco momopoly or any other kind of business and claim exemption from internal taxes as well as from customs du- ties. But when a state goes into the busi- ness of selling whisky, or any other kind of traffic, it must pay the taxes that are levied by the federal government on such traffic, and this will no doubt be the de- cision of the supreme court. Country Life in America. Walking is an art, almost ome of the lost arte. It'is astonishing how few know how to walk—know how to acquire the measured stride, the springy step, the easy polse of the body and the swing of the arm which makes walking at once one of the most healthful and enjoyable forms of physical exercise. For the real pleasure of walking one must turn to the country. Pavements are but dead, unylelding matter at best. In the turf of the country there 18 @ spring in responee to the pressure of the foot which is a delight and an inspira. tion in itself. The purity of the air sets the blood to racing gloriously. Good walkers find twenty miles a day a comfortable average, allowing of plenty of time for rest and “loafing.” Two weeks thus spent will afford memories to last for all time, and with them a measure of health and strength, a quickening of vital forces nervous energy which will find expression in increased power for accomplishment in the world's work. IMPROVING THE INDIAN. Cousiderable Progress Made Along Usefal Lin, Brooklyn Eagle. Our Indians are solving some of our difficulties for us by “coming in,” as they used to say on the reservations, and ex- pressing not only a willingness but a desire to be enrolled among people whose habit has been to work for thelr own living. The latent possibilities of useful- ness among our wards are considerable. Indeed, when left to themselves in some parts of the land and untroubled by med- dlers and government emissaries, they have worked thelr own way toward & prac- tical civilization. The state of the Chero- kees in Indian Territory in the old days was hardly inferior to that of their white neighbors; they invented an alphabet, they had schools and Indoor industries, —they respected personal and property rights far better than do the Slavs, Czechs and Polacks in Pennsylvania and did not show signs in degeneracy till the white mis- sionaries went in, with the usual followlng of white liquor dealers and gamblers. Since the mew system went into effect of employing the red men where possible, inducing the able-bodied to refuse gov- ernment rations, persuading the men to cut their hair and desist from painting their taces, over 12,000 Indians have been dropped from the rolls of the dependents. This is not only a good to the white people, but is a greater good to the red ones, since it will arouse a self-respect that is hardly consistent with the acceptance of alms. Our course toward the Indian was probably the most feasible one in the past, when there was plenty of room and game, but now that the whites are closing about the reservations and the gamo is being ex- terminated the Indian must either be a beggar or he must work, like other people, to avold being one. That so many accept the latter alternative is promising for the has maintained its position as the news- paper of largest circulation in Douglas county, entitled to the publication of no- tices of liquor license application, ever since the present license law was placed s better peace of districts that were kept in fear and more promising for the rais- ing of unraised Indians to better useful- ness. Morally they are as good as the whites and with little urging they will be our equals in all respects. BITS OF WASHINGTON L Minor Scenes and Incldents Sketched On the Spot. Uncle Joe Cannon of Hlinols, prospective speaker of the house of representatives, is commonly known among his assoclates s “the watchdog of the treasury.” The title is not an empty one because Uncle Joe, as chairman of the ways and means commit tee, administers four-fifths of the important legislation of congrees, and is perniciously active In blocking ralds on the national purse. Whenever he has a hard talking job to do on the floor of the house he takes off his collar and pitches in During the last session of congress Mr Richardson of Tenncesee, the democratic leader of the house, took occasion to make a stump speech during the debate on an appropriation bill. Cannon, chairman of the committee, briefly replied to Richard- son, but his reply went all over the coun- try. Referring to the republicans in this lttle speech, he sald: “We are not perfect and we do not claim to be. We pull the wagon and we do the work, and you find the fault. You have been at that now for over a gencration and still we have pulled along. I think we shall pull it for a generation more, and still you scold. We cannot help it. It does ¥ou good and T do not think it hurts us Then, entering the field of prophecy, Uncle “Joe” eald, and sald truly, as time proved: “We have nothing to apologize for. Peace and prosperity abound with us here and everywhere throughout our borders as never before in the history of civillzation. Print your speeches, circulate them, go on the stump. I will take my chance that when the silent ballot drops in November next you will march to the same old defeat.” Representative Livingston of Georgia be- Ioves that he got the better of the surgeons this fall and he is congratulating himself accordingly. As a result of his arduous campalgn work he became possessed of & very bad throat. It refused to yleld to ordinary. treatment, so he went to a dls- tinguished surgeon in his part of the coun- try. The surgeon took a glance at the in- flamed organ and then got out his knives and prepared for an operation. Mr. Living- ston demurred. After much pleading he was granted twenty-four hours in which to tighten up his nerve for the ordeal. While engaged in the tightening process another patient came along, was stretched out on the operating table and died before the surgeon finished with him. Livingston heard of this and stood off the surgeon on one pretext or another until he was ready to start for Washington. Just before leav- ing home he came upon an old negro mammy who offered to cure his throat. She soaked a lump of sugar in turpentine. The dose did all the mammy claimed for it. “And that” said Representative Living- ston, “1s the reason I laugh every time 1 see a doctor's sign.” Mrs. U. 8. Grant has recelved from the emperor of Japan an autograph letter and a plcture of the newly born son of the Japanese crown prince. The picture, framed in Japanese enamel, was presented to Mrs. Grant by the Japanese minister the other day. In the letter accompanying the present the mikado expresses the warm ap- preciation of himself and the erown prince for the gift which Mrs. Grant sent before the birth of the little prince. He also re- newed his sentiments of friendship for every member of the Grant family and re- called his admiration for the great Ameri- can soldier who was his guest many years ago. Comptroller Willlam Barrett Ridgely eays he is like the man who always sees big game when he hasn’t his gun along. The recent failure of the Central National | bank of Boston gave the comptroller the chance to associate himselt with the un- lucky hunter. Said he: “It has never been my fortune since I have been comp- troller to be in Washington when a bank was forced to the wall. * Three banks have | gone under since I succeeded Mr. Dawes, but every one of them has kept on its feet until business took me from the capi- tal; then they became weak and closed thelr doors. When the Boston bank failed 1 was in New Orleans attending the bankers' annual convention. I did not think much of it when the first bank falled, but the second occurrence of the kind eet me to thinking. I did not ltke to go o far away from Washington as New Orleans and only did so when assured | that there was absolutely nothing to keep | I had not unpacked my satchel, | me here. however, before the Central National went under. I shall be afraid to go home to dinner.” Secretary Moody tried to have fun with President Roosevelt over his failure to kill a bear during his recent hunt in Mis- slesippi. “I may not have killed a bear, but I Aaid not mistake a colored woman for a wild turkey,” retorted the president. “I ean have just as much fun with you as you can have with me,” Mr. Roosevelt continued, and he spoke very loud as he told how the secretary while on his recent hunting trip in South Carolina filled & colored woman full of shot, mistaking her for a turkey. The president put a few fine | touches on the story and before he had finished it he had order to pacify the angry negress. PERSONAL NOTES, 1t 1s proposed toallow Mr. D. B. HIll to decide as to whether he is a dead duck in politics or mot. T. W. Sellers, a Kansas City printer, has a full case of the blues. It cost him $500, the limit, to.adjust his wife with a club. Senator Wetmore of Rhode Island 1is rather inconspicuous in the senate, but as a Judge at the New York Horse show he occu- pled the center of the stage. Count von Buelow, the German Imperial chancellor, will accompany Emperor Wil- llam to Rome on the occasion of the un- veiling of the Goethe statue. Mrs. Charles Whitehead of the Home for Friendless Cats and Dogs in Chicago, gave her animals a Thanksglving feast of turkey, oysters and mutton bones on Thursday. Abbotsford, which a Scotch-American is offering to buy to present to the Scottish nation, Is the property of Sir Walter Scott’s great-granddaughter, Hon. Mrs. Josephine Maxwell-Scott. John Bigelow, former United States min- ister to France, has entered upon his 85th year apparently in the best of health. He was bale and hearty at a family gathering at his home in Gramercy Park on Tuesday. Mr. Bigelow was born at Malden, N. Y., on November 29, 1817, General Baden-Powell, the popular Eng- Nsh warrior, was at a luncheon recently where a celebrated physiclan was his fellow guest. The doctor was chafing the sol- dler and sald: “How do you feel after Ktiling & man professionally?" The general replied in his characteristic silky tone: “Oh, T don't mind it much more than you do, 1 dare say." “The Land of Unbounded Possibilities” is the title of & series of articles on conditions in the United States, prepared by Hon. Lud- wig Max Goldberger of Berlin, royal privy councillor of commerce and member of the Imperial German Consulate Board for Com- mercial Measures, to be established by the Treasury Bureau of Statistics in its forth- coming lssue of the Monthly Summary of Commerce and Finance. It this thing keeps on much longer | the secretary buying | a flock of chickens at a fancy price in! | CHRISTMAS SHOPPING, onable Sermon on a Text of Com- mon Intere Baltimore American. a world of time and trouble. fome very provident people begin the planning of their Christmas presents in mid-summer, or even earller, just as holiday stories are accepted in July and Thanksgiving ones written in April by the author who aspires to lead the rush But unless one has a long string of pres- ents and a slender exchequer from which to evolve them, this is rather going to the other extreme. It is well to begin now, though, in the plans of the holiday, espe- clally the important detail of present-giv- ng. To know at once just what gift to glve each friend fs a talent which very few poesess. The majority must think, and think to get suitability and variety, and after much mental anguish on the subject are often forced to go to the shops and throw themselves on the mercy of the dis- cerning clerk, who le supposed to know all men and satisfy all women. To some holiday shopping is a pure de- light. They would not deprive themselves of one fota of the crowds, the rush, the hurry, the bustle, the full stock of holiday goods saved up for the rush. To these economy of time is no consideration and lack of taste in selection no worry. But many suffer from an inabillty to choose the right thing at the right price. While a little careful looking around, a little tour around the shops when a lelsure morning offers, will reveal much In the way of pos- sibilities and give ideas, even if no imme- diate result is reached. Method economizes in every direction, and though few would like to admit, except in strict’ confidence, that present-glving is a nerve racking, ‘mind-burdening ceremony, they so find if, and In the secret depths of thelr souls groan that the hour of trouble 18 at hand. By quietly recollecting the tastes and fancles of those to whom prea- ents are to be made; by giving oneselt sufficlent time to prepare those homemade tokens, which are often the best, and by a judicious watch over patience and pocket, results will be obtained which will surprise by proving that the shopping has not only resulted in proper and pretty gifts, but has been a pleasure in ftself as well. The sensible man or woman will dis- miss at once the idea of making presents which one can {ll afford, which are in- tended merely for show and effect and bear no real wentiment' with them. But one sliouldl not refrain from joining in this pretty custom if means limit one to a very narrow fleld of choice. The pride which, to eave {tself, will sacrifice a tribute to a friend, is not a proper feeling for the season of good will to all, and the moment the worth, and not the meaning, of the gift is considered, it ceases to have worth at all. In short, a timely and judiclous prep tion for the season will be a pleasant way of anticipating it and make the season it self more enjoyable by removing one of its little worries—tor no worries, big or little, should be suffered to grow on Christmas trees. GOOD TIME FOR WORKMEN, Work for All and All Have Money to Buy With, Philadelphia Press. The cry set up to the effect that the cost of living has increased to such an extent that the wage-earner is worse oft now than before the present era of pros- perity is absurd. The workmen were never better off than they are today. They all have work at full time. That alone, in contrast with the time of soup houses under the last democratic administration, proves the absurdity of the cry about the great increase Jn the cost of living. Thero has *been some advance, has there been an advance addition to the full time. crease In prices and 8o in wages in But the in- 1s_principally In farm products, and benefits the agricultural classes. Prof. George Gunton has been investigating the rise in prices and pre- sents some interesting facts, He shows that during the years 1893-94-95-96 there was & decline In prices constituting the cost of living of about 20 per cent. And yet during that time there was more suffer- ing among all classes than in any previous four years of the nation's history. The lower prices did not help in the least, be- cause the people did mot have the money to buy with, and there was no work for the 2,000,000 unemployed. This condition of cheap supplies can be found in China, India and in other countries where destl- tution is the greatest. There is now work for all, and all have money to buy with. That alone fs a great gain. But wages have gone up and keep advancing. Farm products have Increased about 23 per cent. There are no trus to increase the value of farm product But In the manufactured products, fn which trusts exist, excepting coal, there has been an average decline of 10.3 per cent since 1899. The farmer is at no greater expense, excepting for labor, and he has been greatly Not #0 very long from now the Christ- | mas shopping will Begin, as & word in | times means nine, a few suggestions on the subject may not be premature. A | wise man takes thought of the future be- | tore 1t becomes actually the present, and a little thought on this subject may save LAROR AND SELF-RESPECT. Forees Behind the Demand for Shor Hours and Better Pay. Chicago Chronicle | 1t 1s all very well to glorify labor and to say that the man with the hoe fs doing | his part in the great universal whole. 1t 1s easy to preach that labor is praise and that not what one does but the spirit i | which he does it makes it honorable It is quite anotber thing to ba, the la borer carrying the weight of drudgery with the laborer's narrow outlook and his | weariness of flesh. | The president of a popular university | may enjoy his work. He may sing his “La- borare est orare’” and turn from ohe rou- tine of duties to another—now to a foot ball game, now to the reception of a for- | elgn prince, now to lecture to a cultured and admiring audience and now to ‘write ;.n eseay on the uplifting of humanity. It s different with tollers along many | other lincs of work. The miner ecannot | choose to labor {n the mine “every day | Just as long as his strength permits.”" Thé man behind the counter cannot prefer longer hours of work, even though a uni- versity president feels contempt fof bhim | because he does not. The'servant in the kitchen cannot be expected to work for work's sake, though she had listened to | seventy lectures on the beauty and holi- ness of labor. The fact Is thers is work and work. It & person s carrying out his {deal, working from inner impulse and for love of his ob- Ject, bis enthusiasm knows no bounds. Hé can work on and on, limited enly by his physical strength. The number' permitted to work In this wAy is few. The humber | obliged to think of bread first is great. A person may go fnto a coal mine, behind the counter or into a kitchen for the means that give opportunity for the ao- tivity which s & joy, but it cannet-be ex- pected that a person will work - donger | hours than he is compelled by the fuifill- ment of duties, unless it be in exceptional cases. Nor is it to be expected that he will not seek to obtain fot his work the utmoet wages allowable. University presidents and corporation | presidents may loek with contempt on the wage earner satriving to better his condi- tion, but self-respect and the homor of workingmen generally lead him to seek for shorter hours and for wages thet will permit respectable livin LAUGHING GAS. Baltimore American: ‘‘Many a time,” ob- served the doctor, “‘a strict sense of duty compels to cheat the devil out of his Just duea. Y Philadelphia Press: Customer—Why do you wear rubber gloves? Barber—8o that my celebrated “Halr Grower” won't raise Mair on the palms of my hands. Washington Star: ‘‘De man dat's allus % git sumpin’ foh nuffin’,” said Uncle purty 1i'ble. to wind' up by bein’ de people dat gits nuffin’ foh Cleveland Plain Dealer: “Was Herr Krupp alded in making his immense fortun “I belleve it is admitted cannon-aided to some extent. Brooklyn Life: Mickey—Say, Jimmie, does yer s'pose dere reely is folks wot has a dinner like dis ev'ry day? Jimmie—-Naw! If dey eat like dis ev'ry day, wot would dey do when dey wanted ter blow deirselves’ Boston Post: “Good morning, sir,”" sald the stranger accosting Rip Van Winkle, as the latter came down out of the mountains from his twenty-year sleep, “and how are you feeling this morning?' “I am feeling bum-—very bum,” replied Rip In the usual grumbling way of' man- kind; “why I never slept a wink all night.” Puck: Chimmy~I told her I'd die if she refused me, an' showed her de dime I'd saved fer carbolic acid. Johnny—An ‘wot did she do? Chimmy (groaning)—~Do? ' She Jollled. ma along tli I blowed de dime on soda water, and den refused me. Judge: Poet—I sent my latest poem to the editor and told him he co\lldpuas it ‘tor nothing. Friend—Well, did he use it? Pnal—Nn?e: he sent it back with a néte saying: “Your price Is too high.' New York Sun: First Physiclan—And what was your dlagnosis? p Second Physictan—I'll have to look him up in Bradstreet's to decide whether it's rheu- matism or gout. Kansas City Star come my son-in-law?" Inquired the father of the young wooer. “Not by a blame sight,"” the youth, “but as I Intend fo marry your daughter I suppose I'll have to be.’ —— JUST A GIRL. ‘80 you want to be- replied Chicago Record-Herald. Many a throne has had to fall For a girl, Just a girl; Many a king has had to crawl Just a girl; ‘When the hero goes'to war He may battle for the right, But ‘tis likelier by far That he sallles forth to fight For a girl, Just a giri, When the doctor turns to say: “It's a girl, Just a girl," Papa murmurs with dismay: “What! A girl, Just & giri?" Ah, but why the sadness there? Why the bitterness displayed? Some day some strong man wHl swear. That the Ereat round word was made benefited. He pays no more for farm in- struments, and, in fact, buys what he needs cheapor than under the Cleveland admin. istration. The workingmen, without exception, are very much better off now than under the democratic free trade rule, and no greater calamity could befall them than to bring on a renewal of the distress and misery | experienced preceding the election of the late President McKinley in 1896. For that girl, Just that girl. ‘Why did Adam take the bite? For a girl, Just a girl. Why was Troy swept out of sight? For a girl, Just for a girl. Oh, would heaven still be bright, o And would any good man care. To achieve it, if he might Never claim forever theére Just a girl, Glorious girl. restores color to gray hair. Aycr’s Hair Yigor Makes the hair grow. Checks