Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 9, 1902, Page 6

6 THE ©OMAHA DALY BEE E. ROSEWATER, PUBLISHED LVERY MORD EDITOR. Dally Bee (without Daily Bee and Sunday, Tliustrated Bee, One Year.... Bunday Bee, One ¥ ; Baturday Year.... Twentieth Century Farmer, One Y DELIVERED BY CARRIER, Daily Bee (without Sunday), per copy Dally Bee (without Sunday), per week. Dally Bee (Including Suhday), per week.l Bunday Bec, per £Op¥.:, . Evening Bee (without Sunday), Evening Bee (ncluding Sunday), week ; i Loy 100 Complaints rregularities in delivery #hould be addressed to City Circulation De- partment. OFFICES, Omaha—The Bee Bullding. South Omaha—City Hall Bullding, Twen- ty-fifth and M Streets. C | Bluffs-+10 Pear] Street. 1640 Unity Bullding. New York—212%% Park Row Bullding. ‘Washington—#1 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE Communications relating to ne torial matter shoulk ddresse Bee, Editorial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. Business letters and remittances should addressed: The Bee Publishing Com- pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES Remit by draft, exprese or postal order, able to The Bee Publishing Company, Ba17 % cent stampe accepted in payment ot mall accounts. rer...n;f'meux-,l except o Omaha or eastern exchange, not accej THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. Btate of Nebraska, Douglas County, ss.. Tascl per week 6c per and edi- rge " B. uck, secretary of Th Beo Publishing Company, being duly sworn, says that the actual mumber of full an: complete copies of The Daily, Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed during the PROPUSED PHILIPPINE LEGISLATION. Two propositions in regard to the Phil- ippines will be congiderdd and perhaps acted upénjat thel present session of pongress. “One is to glve the archipelago a stable cufrency gnd the other to re- duce the tarif on the products of the islands and on all articles exported from them to the United States. The currency situation in the islands & most injurfous to business and if al- lowed to continue must prove disastrous. This s strongly presented In the report of the secretary of war, which states |that the Insular government has lost over $1,000,000 gold by the decline in gilver because it was operating on a silver basis, while agriculture is pros- trated and commerce hampered and dis- couraged. He points out that all the political parties in the islands urgently ask a change of the present currency standard and there is no reason why congress should delay compliance with this request, which 48 approved by the Philippine commission. Nothing more than the well-attested facts of the situ- ation, it would seem, can be necessary to convince congress of the necessity for a change in the monetary standard of the archipelago and of the duty of mak- ing this as soon as it Is possible to do so. It Is manifestly a most vital matter, since present conditions, If continued, can hardly fail to be productive of a .| great deal of popular discontent that might show itself in a way to cause no little trouble. month of November, 192, was as follows: 25,435 | 30,690 30,870 | 830,040 30,8600 | 30,630 | 31,410 28,310 30,920 | 31,000 | 31,000 | 30,780 | 1,130 | 1,480 | 475 032,910 Less unsold and returned cople: Net total sales Net average sl i, . GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Bubscribed in_my presence and sworn to fore me this 30th d‘; of Novtjmbar‘rA. D. 1902, © M. B. HUNGATE, (Beal) otary Public. It is charged that the securities even of some of the irrigation corporations have been watered. e—— King Alfonso has a new ministry on his hands. But not for long if Spanish precedent holds good. —_— The boycott we have always with us. It would be a cold day without some- body on the unfalr list. —— The paramount “Iowa idea” is the one that was so successfully exemplified at the Chicago live stock exposition. — As to the proposed reduction of dutles, it is urged that a low tariff will greatly stimulate trade between the Philippines and the United States, to the benefit of both in general and the former in par- ticular. It is shown that this country is taking a large place in the trade of the archipelago, which in the fiscal year 1902 was made up of $32,000,000 im- ports, excluding specle and government supplies, and nearly $24,000,000 mer- chandise exports. Of the Imports over $4,000,000 cante from the United States and of the exports nearly $8,000,000 were to the United States. The imports from this country showed an Increase of 143 per cent as compared with 1900 and the exports a gain of 118 per cent for the same period. It is proposed to make a reduction in the tariff on prod- ucts of the islands to 25 per cent of the Dingley rates, but as congress at the last session refused to go below 75 per cent it is not probable that it will now make the large reduction that is pro- posed. There Is no doubt that should it do so the effect would be to materially increase trade between the Philippines and the United States and perhaps it would .also induce the .investment: of American capital in the Islands, but there will be strong opposition, it 1s safe to say, to making rates as lgw as 25 per cent of the Dingley tariff. It is evident, however, that there is pressing need of early legislation for Friends of prisoners in the Nebraska state penitentiary whom they wish par- @oned out by Governor Savage should get busy. Em———— 1If the number of S8outh Omaha council- men is to be doubled by the next legisla- ture the number of Omaha counclimen would have to be quadrupled. — North Platte is to be accommodated snd pacified with an accommodation train that will remove the bitter taste created by the Baldwin incident. Chicago republicans propose to discuss live issues for the spring election before the nominations are made. Omaha re- publicans might emulate the example with profit. e The two yoynger sisters, Arizona and New Mexico, gtill insist that they oug}:r not to be kept in short dresses if OKla- homa Is big jenough to be politically full-robed. | e e ] If the French government really wishes to abolish dueling.it should com- pel duelists to Have it out in afoot ball game. But this is probably too dan- gerous a remedy. J. J. Hill's position on the steamship subsidy is very simple and clear. If there is to be a subsidy he wants a piece of it himself. He does not favor a pubsidy for some other fellow. = Nebraska woman suffragists evidently already have an eye to the prospect of & constitutional 'conyention to revise our organic law and propose to be heard as well as seen whénéver the question of political franchise gualifications comes up for discussion. Meetings of the Denver city council will hereafter be held in jail and the mayor's proclamations will be is- sued from behind grated windows, all on account of such a small matter as rushing a street rallway franchise in the face of an injunction. e Former Senator Thurston wants the report corrected that he has been en- gaged to represent Queefi Lil in her claim for restitution or compensation for al- leged Hawallan crown lands. This ought to leave a good gpening for Our Dave to fall into the lobby at once with & dazaling but contingent retainer. oye————— *Some of the parties who engineered the present South Omaha charter through the last legslatire propose to beslege the comingwlegislature for a radical revisiop. Before taking such action the coming legiglature should as- certain just how much boodle passed through the hands of ‘these patriots for thelr invaluable serviee two years ago. o In Minnesota, Congressman Lind filed & schedule of electipn expenses ' which exceeded by a trifie the limit fixed by the state corrupt practices act. But the people seem to think that the only dif- ference between him and the other can- didates is that he forgot in fixing up his statement the legal lmit that he should swear to, while they remem- bered it the betterment of financial and commer- clal conditions in the Philippines. The people of the islands are submitting pepceably to American rule and appear generally to be satisfied with the po- Htical conditions. They should be made equally contented with conditions affect- ing their material welfare. —— THE DENVER CONTEMPT OASE. There I8 one important direction in which all good citizens are agreed to the righteousness of government by in- Junction, and that is where, as in the case presented at Denver, public offi- cers enter into a conspiracy to betray their trust. The franchise pending before the city council of Denver for a traction com- pany had assumed the proportions of a scandal. The very terms in which it was' drawn were scapdalous, and the methods by which it was sought to en- chain the public for a long period were even worse. It was believed by prac- tically the whole community, on evi- dence which could not be doubted, that ‘a corrupt gang within, the cogneil had been procured by criminal inducements to pass the ordinance In its original flagrant form as drawn by the attor- neys of the corporation, to whose treas- ury it meant hundreds of thousands of dollars at the expense of the public. Nevertheless, the couneil had the au- dacity to pass the rotten measure and the mayor to sign it, In'the very teeth of the specific Injunction which the court had issued upon a full and glaring showing of the facts, these officers In- stantly absconding to distant parts like ticket-of-leave men. \ But the serious point is that the sen- tence of imprisonment for three months which has been passed is no adequate penalty for such a crime and no remedy whatever for the injury ‘Inflicted. No punishment could be too severe and no process to summary for all the partici- pants, whether the guilty officials or corrupt promoters. 4 GREAT IRRIGATION WORK. The dam of Assouan, which was opened yesterday, is the newest engi- neering wonder of the world in the land which _holds the earliest of such won- ders that still stand. This penning of the Nile four hundred miles above the Pyramids has beep & work of & genera- tion, abandoned as lmpossible by the Egyptians and the French, but pushed to success by British skill and persever- jance, This and the Asslont barrage will glve Egypt a reservalr of 1.000,000,- 000 cublc yards of ‘water every year, crops will be dependent no longer upon the risings of the Nile and the fatness of the land will exceed that of the days of old. All the while that Great Britain was engaged In war in South Africa this work of peace in North Africa never slackened. It is sald that this great enterprise cost between $100,000,000 and $125,000,000 and there is no doubt that it will many times repay the ex- penditure. The water that will be stored will, it is stated, flood the Nile valley for fitty wiles, assuring a great increase in the agricultural produgts of that re- THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: "l“UE!‘I')AY)2 P_ECEMBER,,? possible to overestimate the value of this to the country. The completion of this great work, which has been going on for yours, Is at once highly credita- ble to British policy and notabla: evi- deuce of British skill and persistence. AN IMPUDENT BLUFF CALLED. About eight years ago the publisher of the World-Herald sought to play a high- handed confidence game,on Omaha mer- chants by bogus circulation claims. The impudent bluff was called by the de- posit of a certified check for $5,000, placed in the hands of Henry W. Yates, president of the Nebraska National bank, to be paid to G. M. Hitchcock in fractions of $1,000 on five separate propo- sitions that the bona fide circulation of The Omaha Evening Bee in Omaha and South Omaha overlapped by many thou- sands that of The Evening World-Her- ald, The Morning World-Herald, or both combined. The money remained in the hands of Mr. Yates for thirty days with- out even an effort on the part of Mr. Hitcheock to claim the reward on any one of the five different propositions. Thus the bubble was pricked and the bogus claimant subsided for a few years. ‘The confidence game attempted to be played upon advertising patrons in gen- eral and applicants for liquor license in particular by bogus claims and fake affidavits has forced The Bee to prod the infiated double-ender balloon and let the gas out of it. The offer made by The Bee Publishing company is made In good faith and with- out mental reservation or evasion of any kind, and will stand until New Year's or longer, If necessary. The Bee is pre- pared to submit to the referees named in its reward offer the lists of subscribers secured by nearly 100 carriers in o home- to-home canvass. If the World-Herald has anything more than brass to support its claims, its publisher will have no trouble in earning $5,000 between now and Christmas. If the combined bona fide circulation of The Morning World-Herald and Even- ing World-Herald, which he is pleased to call The Dally World-Herald, ap- proximates 12,000 In Douglas county, as is claimed by his circulation fakirs, it will be an easy thing for him to furnish the lists. As soon as they are verified he will get $1 for every name he pre- sents in excess of 8,000, and make more money than he could get out of the liquor dealers’ advertising before or after dividing with his side partner in the bluff, who prints the junior after- noon paper in Omaha. Sr——— MAKING SLOW PROGRESY, Rather slow progress is being made in the anthracite coal strike investiga- tion and it is announced that at least three weeks more will be consumed in taking testimony, but the disposition of the commission to get at all the facts necessary to a complete and clear under- standing of the issues in controversy, however long it may take to do this, is to be commended. The evidence which has been submitted on the part of the miners has disclosed a condition of affairs which every right-minded American citizen must deplore and there seems no reason to doubt the authen- ticity or truthfulness of what has been told the commission by these witnesses. Indeed, much of it was known before and a great deal that has been testified by the miners in regard to the danger and hardship of their toll and the pov- erty and suffering among them con- firms what had been given to the public by newspaper correspondents and other investigators. There appears to be no promise of a settlement of the controversy through negotiations between the operators and the miners. The former persist in the de- termination not to recognize the miners' union and there is not the least proba- bility that they will change their attl- tude In this respect. "It has been re- ported that the principal attorney for the mine owners, Mr. Wayne MacVeagh, was displeased with thelr position, but it so that fact is not likely to exert any influence with them. They especlally object to Mr. Mitchell, yet If he should withdraw as the representative of the miners there s no assurance that the operators would then make a settle- ment. Meanwhile the effect of a short- age in the coal supply and the conse- quent high price of fuel is widely felt and the suffering already foreshadows what may be expected before the end of winter. —— COMPARISONS ARE ODIOUS, The World-Herald claims The Bee's circulation In Douglas county is padded in order to exceed the World-Herald during the publication of lquor licenses. ‘This assertion 1s absolutely baseless. In any event, it could not apply to circula- tion outside of Douglas county. The following shows the comparative circulation of The Bee and World-Herald in the ten largest towns in Nebras omitting Omaha, South Omaba and Lin- coln: Bee. World-Herald . 368 105 336 176 338 83 13 181 256 87 185 136 140 187 Grand Fremont Nebraska City. Plattsmouth Hastings Kearney Beatrice York Nortolk Alliance 1 Totals 906 The World-Herald elrculation fakirs | will discover presently that you ean fool some people sometimes, but you eag't fool all the people all the time, ————————— ‘Whatever the real truth may be, there 1s a growing belief that there is a move- ment to bring Grover Cleveland out again as a presidential candidate and that it s with his knowledge and con- sent. His recent public appearances af- ford no little corroboration of this view. The, statement of the New York Sun, L.which is belleved to be strongly influ- glon and a vegular yield. It 1§ hardly [enced If not divectly controlied by J. Plerpont Morgan, that it would support Oleveland If nowinated, is regarded as slgnificant in connection with many other recent happenings. = There is no doubt that many of the controlling spirits in the great financial ‘and Industrial manipulations view with profound ap- prehension the positive and courageous attitude of President Roosevelt toward trusts and that the same element would be entirely satisfied with Cleveland if there should be a chance to use him effectively. And it is at least a safe In- ference that they are carefully casting about for some means of hopeful oppo- sition to his re-election. According to the Chicago Record-Her- ald, there is great suffering in Omaha owing to scarcity of coal. If the Chi- cago Record-Herald would direct Iits long-distance telescope to the east in- stead of the west it would discover a great deal more suffering owing to the searcity of coal. For example, in the city of Washington anthracite coal is doled out to owners of dwellings and hotels in very small quantities and Virginia cordwood at $10 per cord has been substituted by people who can af- ford not to shiver, In New York City there is also an acute stage of coal famine and thousands of poor people are exposed to the inclemencies of se- vere winter weather for want of fuel Omaha is comparatively comfortable. The demand for cordwood has not yet manifested itself in the Capitol avenue market square. e—— At the recent convention of the League of American Municipalities the dangers from escaping gas were a subject of serious discussion. Attention was par- ticularly called to the deléterious effect of gas leakage on asphalt pavements and the diffusion of gas into buildings through the earth covered by air-tight pavements. It seems to us, however, that greater danger exists by leak- age of worn out gas fixtures in old bulld- ings and the llability of fatal conse- quences from inhaling polsonous gases and the increased risk of accidental combustion in cases of fire. Perlodic in- spection of gas fixtures in hotels and lodging houses would suggest them- selves as the only effective preventive, B —— The citizens' educational commission appointed by the Civic Federation of Chicago has formulated a bill for the reorganization of the Chicago public school system. The prineipal features of the measure are reduction of the num- ber of members of the school board from twenty-one to nine, to be appointed by the mayor, enlargement of the powers of the superintendent of schools that will give him authority to employ and dis- charge all teachers and principals, and the creation of the position of business manager, who will have charge of the business affairg Of the board. If any- body in Omaha should propose such in- novations what would become of him? gy Prosperity must certainly have struck Nebraska strong swhen the country weekles have to crowd out all thelr editorial comment and run supplements to boot to make ;room for merchants’ holiday’ announcéments overcrowding the advertising columns. S——— The failure of the packers' trust merger 1s chuge& up by New York papers to- Michael-and Bdward Cudahy. If the Cudahys are really responsible for the collapse of the beef trust scheme they are entitled to congratulations. New York Tribune. The annual pension bill falls little short of & total of $140,000,000. The surrender at Appomattox took place more than thirty-seven years ago. Republics are not always ungrateful. The South Learn! Atlanta Journal A portrait of Lincoln s to be hunz be- side that of Lee in Missiesippl's “Hall of Fame.” The south s learning much more rapidly than the nmorth that greatness is not confined by geographical lines, nor creeds nor political principles. Hit the Target Every Time. Portland Oregonian. President Roosevelt is right. *The only shots that tell are the shots that hit.” This is true whether applying to the battle | record of war, afloat and ashore. or to presidential utterances upon trusts and other matters that touch the public policy of the nation. No Excuse for Pardon. Philadelphia Record. President Roosevelt's sympathies are less easily moved, and he has refused par- dons to several embezziers and unlawful bank officials. The last refusal was in the case of a bank president convicted of embezzling funds and bribing a couple of aldermen. “Denjed; this seems to be an absolutely clear case of gullt, with no excuse whatever for pardon,” was his in- dorsement on the application. aughter of Deer H New York Tribune. The northwestern deer season winds up | with fourteen hunters killed and twenty | wounded, all shot because they were mis- taken by their fellow sportsmen for the game thoy were pursulng. The Adiron- dack region scores a brilliant record of its own of the same kind, but is not allowed a walkover in its race for that altogether | too ensanguined laurel. A change in the color of hunters' raiment i6 now favored | everywhere, dark blue being the hue pro- | posed, and its adoption will probably greatly lessen the number of such cas- ualties. But with thelr recurrence and increase year by year, why was not such an expedient thought of long | Evidenmce of Business Prosperity. | 8St. Louls Globe-Democrat. President Roosevelt is unquestionably correct in assuming that the great in- crease in the postal revenues of the coun- try is an evidence of business prosperity The postal department's receipts in the fiscal year which ended on June 30, 1502, were $122,000,000, an increase of more than $10,000,000 over the preceding year. This was @ larger gain than had ever before been made in a twelvemonth. When weneral trade Is active the postal receipts of the country always go up, and vice versa. The country is enjoying in this republican ers the best days which it has ever seen. and it knows this, and testified its appreciation for it by the blg fhkjority which it xav the repubMcan party in the receat elee. toa. 1902. HOUND ABOUT s on the Current of Life in the Metropolis. New Yorkers are such graclous experts n handing “‘gold bricks” to innocents from “the provinces” that when a resident is taken in by the game the fact is worth recording, merely as a solace to recipients of similar packages. The victim in this instance is a saloon keeper, owner of a desirable corner lot whereon he irrigates the thirsty multitude. The lot was for sale and one day a smart looking young man entered and began negotiations for its purchase. They could not agree upon a price. Tho owner thought that he ought to get $75,- 000 for it. The agent did not believe the parties he represented would give more than $65000. The caller went away with a promise to return. He came back In a tew days and several other visits fol- lowed. The diverse figures of buying and sell- ing came closer together. One day a couple of surveyors appeared and began to run lines all around the place. When asked what they were doing, one of them replled: “We were told to come here and survey the property. I think It was by some fellow who is going to buy it.” A few days later the young man ap- peared. A bargaln was concluded at $70,- 000. The papers were drawn up and the purchaser pald $100 in cash to bind the bargain and took & receipt. A time was sot when the deed and the purchase money should be forthcoming. Two days afterward another men ap- peared. After much talk he informed the saloon keeper that he had been sent by & big syndicate that had bought several lots on the block, and must have this one. When told that the corner had been sold he was frantic. After much more talk he made this proposition, that if the saloon man could get out of his contract in some way the syndicate would give him $80,000 in cash. They were so sure of it that their plans had been made and the block sur- veyed and now they must have it. To make a long story short, the owner found his first friend, paid him $1,000 in cash to cancel the agreement and handed him back the $100 pald in. Then he sat down to awalt the return of the agent of the syndicate. That was several months ago and he is walting for him yet. No woman, no matter how poor she may be, who lives within the confines of a cer- tain territory in New York City, need be without help in her household duties any more—that is, provided the present state of things in that section continues. She can call to her ald a man-of-all-work who will perform any eervice she reauires, and all she will have to pay is ode penny. There {8 & youth just verging on man- hood who patrols the section every morn- ing regularly, going into the vards and calling out at the top of his volco that he will “do any kind of work for one cent.” Many housewives in flats who do not keeo a servant find this youth exceedingly use- ful. They get the hardest part of thelr work done quickly and cheaply and do not | have to contend with many annoyances | consequent on keeping a girl in a small flat. Most persons who employ the vouth glve him more than a penny, but he does | not seem to expect any more. The strenuous American girl had an- other fnning in one of the suburbs of New York the other afternoon. She was re- turning from the high school which she attended, with her books under her arm when her attention was attracted by the spectacle of an Italian peddler unmercifully beating with a spade an emaciated horee hitched to an overloaded wagon. The Italian was trying to beat the horse up a steep hill, but the horse's starved condi- tion was such that the feat was imoossi- ble for him, hard as he tried. “Let that horse alone,” the high school girl said in a quiet tone to the Italian, stepping over to his side. The Itallan turned and sald somethine | to her in his language which wasn't ex- actly a benediction, and then went on pounding the suffering animal. “I'll give you just one minute to un- hitch that horse from that wagon.” re- marked the high school girl to the Italian, taking a little enameled watch from her belt and gazing at the second hand. The Itallan understood English all right, for this time he swore most expressively at the young woman in the English tongue. She didn't pay any attention to his swearing, but kept on looking at her watch. When the minute was up and the Italian was still beating the horse, she delib- erately tucked her watch into her belt placed her books on the curb, went to the back of the peddler's wagon, took a club which she found there, approached the Italian and laid his head open and stretched | him out senscless in the road with a busi- nesslike blow of the club. Then she un- bitched the horse from the cart. led him to the brow of the hill and tethered him to a tree, returned and got her books and went home. The Italian had her before a maglstrate on the following day. “Good girl,” sald the magistrate, when the Italian had hissed his story and de- manded venegeance. “Bully good girl! Wish you were one of my daughters. You Adult Male 40t 70 drope ] Ha oy e 5 e whaseres vnspoos bt e SR S i SEars ot bowry ] directions are e tach Vortie 1 is rom o 14 8% 10 drope " ing costing & certaln amount, which they had in their treasury. He did so, but only figured on the bare building, without even any windows. It happened that we knew | o their plight and succeeded in getting the architect to so modify his plans that we were enabled to give to them a pretty little stone church, with stained windows and carpets for the amount the architoct believed the bare walls would cost. WHAT AVE COST. Millions Spent in Subduing and Con- trolling the Noble Reds. Chicago Tribune. The commissioner of Indian affairs savs that from the founding of the government down to 1890 $845,000,000 was spent in sub- duing and controlling the Indians and $240.- 000,000 for the education and care of thelr children. This is a large bill, though it is not to be compared with that for the civil war. The commissioner's figures do not give the full cost of the subjugation of the Indians. So that white men might oc- cupy this continent in peace Indian wars began soon after colonies were founded in Virginia and New England, and were car- ried on at intervals during a century and a half of colonfal existence. To find what it really cost to get rid of the Indians it will be necessary to add to the exvendi- tures of the national government those of the colonles and also those of the British government prior to the Declaration of In- dependence, Allowance must be made also for the fact that the purchasing power of money was greater two and a half cen- turies ago than it is now and that an ex- penditure of $1,000 in King Philip's war meant much more than an expenditure of $1,000 in modern Indian war. From first to last the Indians have cost the whites a bers. make this country an abode for civilized men. PERSONAL NOT! Secretary Shaw reports that Uncle Sam has money to Incinerate, although & good deal has been burned In the past year. Frederick K. Landis, the newly elected member of the Eleventh Indiana district. will be the youngest member of the next house. Representative Lanham of Texas. who has been elected governor of his state, will resign his seat in the house early in January. President Roosevelt very properly in- sists that offieers in the army shalll not wear the derby hat and tan shoes with the army blouse. On Christmas, 1900, Peter Carroll gave 500 turkeys to the poor of Cleveland: in 1901 Sheriff Barry contributed an addl- tional 500, and this year Congressman Beid- ler having joined the other two. 1.500 turk- eys will be distributed. W. L. Ray, a grandson of Greenwood Laflore, the Choctaw chief who negotiated for the treaty by which the tribe ceded its lands in Mississippi, will present a portrait of the chief to the gallery of por- traits in the Mississippl state capitol. “Man’s inhumanity to man” has long been a theme for countless tomgues, but all the eloquence of ages do not eaual the brevity and vigor of the words which spring | from the heart of the man who suddenly sits down on a slippery sidewalk. Then it is that feeling lends to eloguence its rarest tone. did just what I'd want them to do under similar circumstances. Go home. You are discharged.” It you want a church nowadays, reports the New York Times, all you have to do s to place your order with the church bullder. Heretofore when churches were projected builders who were engaged in general work were called on to undertake the job. Now it is different. In August last a cdrporation was organ- ized under the name “The Church Cou- struction company" and that corporation proposes to begin after the architect is| through and not to stop until it hands over | the complete church, woodwork, carpets, organs and all of the accessories, except the preacher. | “Our ideas were not the result of accl- dent or of sudden conviction,” said one of | the officers of the company last week. “All our men are specialists and have spent most of their business life in some branch of | ecclesiastical construction. “One of these men became known to the bullding trade as an expert church bullder and he was frequently asked by other build- | ers to take charge of their work for them. | He became convinced that a company or- | ganized to construct churches and kindred | bulldings would succeed and last August | we began. In the three months that have | followed we have obtained more than $200,- | 000 worth of business and bave 200 men | employed. { “Onpe thing in our favor is that the ordl nary bullder, accustomed to the building of tier upon tler of beams and of providing | for office construction, finds himself in & | strange land and he must guess at a great many things he does not actually know. | The arched, self-supporting roofs and the | bullding of gaferies are all things that he | must figure on in a hit-or-miss fashion &nd necessarily his estimate is higher than that of an expert. “When wa first started operations we in- tended to build only the walls and then to | lease the rest of the work to some one else We found, however, that the architect who drew the plans had dome just that same thing, with disastrous results. The con- gregation was one not very well off | some | worla. | graph on Samuel W. Pennypacker, governor elect of Pennsylvania, has a valuable library, {n respects the most curious in the Among its treasures is Jefterson Davis' copy of the constitution of the United States, with the confederate leader's aut the fly leat: “Jeftn. Davi Underneath Judge Pennypacker has written: “His boak. And lttle good did it do him.” There is no more enthusiastic hunter in efther branch of congress than Senmator ment this world's goods and they had instructed thelr architect to prepare plans for & bulid- sum out of all proportion to their num- | It has been no simple matter to. Every well-posted doctor today knows all about Ayer’s ( hei Pectoral. Most doctors order it for coughs, colds, brone' and even for consumption. Your doctor use it ? Burton of Kansas. He has trophies zalore to prove his ekill in the chase. While in Hawalii last summer he enjoyed some royal sport after the wild boars there. A vic- fous quarry is that same animal by all accounts. One of the senator's party was chased by a wounded boar and had to shin up a tree in a hurry. Heq waited thero some time before belug released by hls triends. ES TO A LAUGH. New York Sun: here. song.” “Just my darn luck! I can't sing." Philadelphia Pres: “I think I know," sald the amateur gunner, after his fifih stralght miss, “why those birds are called cks. (What's that, sir?” Inquired the guid “Because they duck out of the way time a fellow shoots.” Land e mighty chea You can buy & good farm for & Ty Yonkers Statesman: Church—Do you think he s a well proportioned man? Gotham—No; his lungs are away out of proportion to his brains. Boston Globe: Jorkins—Your son will be a comfort to you in your old age. Joblots—If ‘that boy turns old as he promises 1 won't have any old age, Cleveland Plain Dealer: “Yer, sir,” sald the glib salesman, “I contend that I can tell the disposition' of a woman by the cor- e 8 the th “Well,” sald the thoughtful ma: n (admit there's a good deal'in that | | _Baltimore Herald: Beryl-Why, Sibyl, you keep on talking ‘foot ball just as-if the | season wasn't over! Sibyl-The game may be over, but the | foot ball season is not. Wny, most of the college team will be in the hospital for the next three months, and it's such a jolly lark cheering them'up Philadelphla Press: “O yes!" he said boastfully, “I used to be an old flame of hers."" 5 8o you were. ‘Ah! Her father was tell- ing me last night ho he put you out.” Detrolt Free Press: Tom-—At San Juan battle President Roosevelt said, “Come on, ell, In the rush for office he ought ‘Come off, boys!" A BIRD A HO) A bird of beauteous plumage, Flying unerringly, Rested {ts strong, bright pinions Upon a sturdy tree. The glowing, brilliant color That glorified its breast Was like to sunset splendor, Gllding the dusky west. When rude winds swayed the brancher It but the closer clung; And, with the early morning, Most tenderly it sung. A hope as glad as sunshine Came to a burdened heart And brightened it and blessed it 8o sorrow had no part. It _whispered of the future And covered up the pas Each lurking, present sha Its radiance o'ercast. And when the heart was weakest The hope shone, clear and strong, And when the night was darkest Most satient wes its song. | Butenow, the treo is barren Of brightness and of bird And the sad heart is empty And hears no cheering word. Winside, Neb. BELLE WILLEY GUE. THE PURE | G GRAIN COFFEE The coffee habit is quickly over- come by those who let Grain-O take its place. If properly made it tastes like the best of coffes. No grain coffee compares. with it in flavor or healthfulness. TRY IT TO-DAY. | At grocers everywhere; 15c. and 25¢. per package RAIN- Do Your Holiday Shopping Early and avoid the late confusion— Here is What the Boy Needs for school and all out-door amuse- s—a nice, warm, high collar Reefer, $3.50 up; lined gloves or Mittens 25¢ up, stocking or pull down Caps 50c up; canvas, duroy, Jersey or leather Leggins 50c up, and the best 23c Hosiery in town. cor- NO CLOTHING FITS LIKE OURS. Browning- g - 3 R. S. Wilcox, Mgr.