Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 15, 1902, Page 4

e ——————— A ———————— S ———— THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THE OMAHA DAiLY BEE E. ROSEWATER, EDITOR. BLISHED EVERY MORNI TERMS OF BUBSCRIPTION. A “PACIFIC BLOCKADE." A New York dispatch of Saturday stated that vessels leaving for Venezue. lan ports took out their clearance papers as usual, notwithstanding the reports of a blockade, no official notice having Datly Bee (without Sungaz), One Year. ) been received by the collector at New Hiustratea Bes, One tear-. $% | York to warn vessels of a blovkade. In Bunday Bee, One Year.. 0| oo - “pac . | o Ay R T 1% rogard to the so-called “pacific block Twentleth Century Farmer, One Year.. LW| ade,” as now established by the British DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Vel elan ports, Theo- Dafly Bee (without Sunday), per copy.... 3¢ A0 Germaus 8t YRD oo o Daily Bee (without Sunday), per week....1%¢ Daily Bee (including Sunday), paf week..17c Bunday Bec, per copy.... 2] Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week 6c Evening Beo (ncluding Sunday), per week 1 Complaints of ‘irregularities in deiivery should bé addressed to City Circulation De- partment. OFFICES, a~The Bee Building, Omaha—City Hall Bullding, Twen< and M Streets. 51640, Unity Building e ork: Park Row Bullding. Waehington—1 Fourteenth Street. CORRESPONDENCE Communications relating to new; torial matter should bé addressed: Bee, Bditprial Department. BUSINESS LETTERS. Business letters and remittances should be addressed: The Bee Publishing pany, Omaha. REMITTANCES. Remit by draft, express or postal order, payable to The Bee Publishing Company, Only 2-cent stamps accepted In payment o mail ageounts. ersonal checks, -xe-pxt .d“ epted. and edl- Omaha dore D. Woolsey, the leading American authority on International law, says of it that it 1s an invention of one or two'| 0c|of the leading nations, “the object of which has been to prevent neutral ves- sels from entering or Issuing from cer- tain ports of an offending state just as in war, with the same rules of proc- lamation and arrest for violation of the rules as In war, while yet war is de- clared not to exist.” -Aeccording to Prof. Woolsey most writers on international law who mention the pacific blockade at all condemn it as unjust to neutrals and he says: “This appears to us to be evidently the correct’ opinion, because it any measure implies a state of war, blockade does so most decidedly, and no such measure can be introduced into the law of nations without the consent Omaha. or eastern ur?flnxe. not_acel THH BEE, PUBLISHING COMPANY STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Douglas County, s George B. Taschuck, secretary of The ompany, belng duly sworn, says that the actual number of full and complete. coples of The Daily, Morning, Evening and-Bunday Bee printed during the month of November, 1802, was as follow! 81,470 28,435 BENEERRESSEESE Less unsold and returned coples.... 9,237 Net total sales. 922,078 . 30,755 Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this 30th day of November, A. D. 1902, 3B, HUNGATE, (Heal) Notary Public. Omaha retall merchants will have no ground to complain this year about a green Christmas. An exchange has a story headed “Cold Facts About Nebraska.” The season would justify a transposition of the adjective. Mr. Cudahy is not Inclined to believe that Pat Crowe I8 now doing business in South. Africa. In this respect Mr. Cudahy does not disagree very much with other people. -~ Spme——————— As no Invitations are required to par- ticipate in that little game down In South America, several more nations seem disposed to take a hand and ask for cards from the dealer. EEEeeT————— In the tug-of-war between Nebraska and Missourl to see which holdd Me- Kissick island cut off by the wander ipgs of the Missourl river, Nebraska Wins. At léast such is the decision of the umpire. ——— iovernor Savage is in Colorado again Inspecting mining property in which he is sald to be Interested. It Is not stated whether this Is the same mine in which some of the state’s money sequestered by Bartley was salted. Members of the city council who are trying to obstruct the submission of the electric power franchise proposition to the people at the coming city election should remember that they cannot play ostrich very much longer. That offer of $5,000 reward in support of the assertion that The Omaha Evening Bee has a subscription list in Douglas county exceeding by 7,000 the subsecrip- tion list of the Morning World-Herald and by 3,000 the subscription list of the Ev.enlng ‘World-Herald still stands, E— The National Civil Service - Reform league wants the credit system fn the federal service extended to the Indian agencies. If the league had fits way there would be lamentation and gnash- ing of teeth in the nelghborhood of the Omaha and Winnebago reservation. e—— A coroner’s jury on the recent Chicago hotel disaster that extinguished four- teen lives has come in with the usual verdict of condemnation and lets it rest there. In the meauwhile filmsy con- struction of bulldings that constantly endanger Hfe and property will con- tinue without fear of penalties. ep———— The Unlon Pacific Rallroad company wants its machine shop grounds to be assessed by the acre at cornfleld valua- tion, while the grounds oceupied by other shops, mills and factories are as- sessed on a town-lot basis somewhere near equal to the assessments of lands occupled by dwellings or business houses adjacent to these concerns. E———————— The worst advertisement Yale has re- celved as a rich man's college comes from the account of the imposition of fines ranging from $100 to $200 on four students charged with breach of the peace, with the notation: “The fines were immediately pald.” Poor men's sons will do well to keep away from an edu cational institution where they will be expected to strike such a high gait. E——— The rallroads of Michigan will pay about $3,000,000 of taxes on an assess- ment of §208,000,000 for the year 1903, or about double the amount of taxes they have pald for the preceding yea If the Nebraska rallroads were hon- nhy assessed in proportion to the valu- ation of all other classes of property, their taxes would also be doubled and the state woald not be running into debt at the rate of more than $100,000 a year as it has for the last ten years. of all. Neutrals, therefore, would have the right of making complaints against such a principle, which affects their commerce."” If this view be correct, and it certainly appears reasonable, it would seem that our government may properly require that the blockade of Venezuelan ports, 80,870 | which 1s not regarded as implying a condition of war, shall not be permitted to interfere with our commerce with Venezuela. The United States has never, it appears, recognized “pacific blockade” as a principle of international law and there 1s no good reason why it should now do so. While the Venezuelan sit- uation is certainly in the nature of war, not only by reason of the blockade, but also because of the seizure and sinking of the naval vessels of Venezuela, yet there 18 no admission that a state of war exists and therefore no neutral nation is bound to observe the blockade. It seems entirely clear that an American vessel leaving one of our ports for Venezuela has as unquestionable a right to enter a port of the latter as If no blockade existed, that condition being held by the powers creating it not to imply a state of war. Nothing has come from Washington to Indicate how the executive authori- ties regard the blockade and probably there will not be unless there is some interference with our commerce. That is & possible contingency, though un- doubtedly it is the Intention of both the British and German governments to aveld giving any offense to the United States and doing anything that would afford a reason and justification to this country for interposing. It can be con- fidently predicted that no unwarranted interference with our commerce will be tolerated and it is not to be doubted that this is well understood by. the Brit- 1sh afd German governmelits. We ac- knowledge: thelr. right to collect just claims, but In the exercise of this right they must do no Injury to our interest There has been no movement at the present session of congress In regard to amending the interstate eommerce law and there s reason to fear that nothing will be done to make the law more effective by this congress. Representa- tives of commercial interests are about to renew their efforts to secure amend- ments to the act, but the prospect of accomplishing anything this winter is not particularly favorable. The New York Journal of Commerce remarks that it is belng made every day more plain that such powers as the courts have left to the commission need enlargement and were it on no other ground than the necessity for furnishing a counter- polse to the growth of the autocratic power of the railroads some increase of the authority of the Interstate Com- merce commission would be obviously defensible. That paper says: “As un- der the mew regime of community of Interest or of ownership the rallroads advance one pretension after another, all having the common end of ralsing the rates of transportation, there is a public opinion being formed not unlike that which existed before the passage of the Interstate commerce act. It weuld be wise for railroad managers to recognize the exlstence of this and to make some needful concessions to it, lest its demands should assume a form which it might be harder for them to satisty,” The popular sentiment in favor of leg- fulntion increasing the authority of the commission and making the law more effective was never stronger than now and it will not decline. That it will ultimotely secure what it demands s not to be doubted and rallroad man- agers who oppose any concessions to this scntiment are making the gravest possible mistake, since that course oper- ates to Intensify public opinion regard- ing the pecessity for a stronger law. e——— TIME FOR PUBLIC DISCUSSION. Only three weeks remain from now until the convening of the legislature, but no action has as yet been taken either by the city council or’ commercial bodles toward discussing and formu- lating amendments to the charter and other important legislation of vital con- cern to the citizens and taxpayers of Omaha. The Bee is informally advised that the members-elect to the legislature from Douglas county desire to be in- formed and instrueted as to the wishes of their constitutents and are willing to exert their influence to effect proper legislation. In order to arrive at a rational con- clusion no time should be lost in calling meetings for public discussion and care- ful deliberation by committees of citi zens and public officials with & view to {mpressing upon the represeutatives to the legislature from this county the es- sential features of proposed charter amendment. In this connection It would, in our judgment, be very desira- ble that every department of the ecity government, and the Board of County Qommissioners as well, should submit briefly such recommendations as experi- ence has shown to be essential for more economic and efficient management of departments of city and county govern- ments. Incidentally it might also be desirable to ascertain what, If any, legislation the Board of Education e disposed to recom- mend for the better government of the public schools. With this information in their possession public bodies and committees will be better able to discuss intelligently the various changes pro- posed in the charter and the statutes re- lating to county and school government. It may also be eminently appropriate after the conclusions have been arrived at on these subjects to discuss the pro- posed reforms In our election laws which also affect this community in a great measure. There certainly is no time to be lost it we are to arrive at any definite con- clusions before the legislature convenes. The contempt proceedings before the federal court strikingly illustrate the differences of opinion as to cuss words and abuse. The strike breakers clalm that they have suffered mental anguish, if not bodily pain, from Insulting re- marks dropped by the striking machin- ists as they pass In and out of the Union Pacific enclosure. The Union Pacific strikers positively deny any disposition to hurt the tender feelings of the strike breakers or to cause them bodily in- Jury, but on the contrary assure the court that they have exhibited an ab- normal amount of forbearance and only talked back when they could no longer hold down the safety valve. With such clashing testimony before it, the court very naturally hesitates between a repri- mand and a referee. The Omaha Real Estate exchange has voted a request to the secretary of the Board of Education for a list of all the teachers and janitors on the payroll of the school board, with the salaries paid to each and the duties performed by each. The exchange also makes a re- quest for the names of all other persons employed by the school board, together with the salary pald each and the-duties performed by each. This is manifestly a search after sinecures, but the inquiry will fall far short of the mark unless it includes also the relationship of every person on the payroll to members of the board. The days of martyrs are not yet over. A striking example Is Elmer Pettiford, a colored Seventh Day Adventist em- ployed in the Treasury department, who refused to work on Saturdays on account of religious scruples, and has been trans- ferred from one corridor in the treasury bullding to another corridor, with a re- duction of $480 a year In his salary for worshiping two days In the week, while any number of white folks working in other parts of the bullding enjoy a Sab- bath all the year around without having their salaries trimmed off. Sipie—— The mayor and eleven city aldermen of Denver, who are languishing in jail with Christmas in sight, have applied to the Colorado supreme court for rellef from involuntary confinement on the ground of error in their sentence, If the court should find that an error was made by the lower court in sentencing them to a few weeks In idleness In jail in- stead of requiring them to break stone for twelve months in the Fort Collins state boarding house, the Denver officials might repent the error of thelr ways. S——— The republicans of St. Louls, through the Globe-Democrat, are urging a cam- paign for home rule In the government of the police and fire departments of their city. They insist that St. Louls should have the right of electing its own police commissioners without the inter- vention of the governor, just the same as they have the right to select their own mayors and other officials without the intervention of nonresident voters. The great majority of republicans in this city are in the same frame of mind. Ambassador Storer, who has just been promoted from the position of minister of the United States to Madrid, declares that the young king of Spaln has been basely maligned In the storles about his health and private conduct. In spite of the late unpleasantness, the United States has only friendly feelings for Spain and no interest in the circula- tion of defamatory fabrications about the Spanish monarch. A bill has been introduced in congress to make punishable the levying of po- litical contributions upon federal ap- pointees by members of the house and senate. A bill giving appointees a right to recover political contributions ex- acted of them under the guise of loans might be more effective and would hit more of the honorable congressmen who make others pay their campaign bills, — Good Examples to Follow, Boston Transcript. Mr. Conkling and Mr, Reed proved that distinguished public service is an excellent advertisement for professional life. Stretehing a Point. Baltimore American The rubber famine could hardly have selected a more unseemly time than when all the windows are full of Christmas goods. But Will They Study? Philadelphia Ledger. With twenty-one anti-trust bills already introduced in ccngress, the ccngressmen will have to learn something about mergers before the session is over. Last Analys ville Courler-Journal It 1s a trifie early for the millionaires to begin the naming of presidents. But, when they do, it will be for democracy to exclaim, “I forbld.” Then indeed shall there arise some leader with creative wand to assemble forces in the desolate camps. | postage we should perhaps reduce the do- But, this will be long after we, have gone to sleep. And, his name will not be Grover Cleveland! oot of the Boston Globe, It 1s to be feared that rejoicing over the discovery of the germ of laziness is pre- mature. That activity which ever finds work for idle hands to do Is not going to be checked at this late date by a mere sctentific antitoxin, ht for Woman's Rights. Chicago Chronicle, A most wise and upright judge in Maine holds that it is not thoft for & wife to go through the pockets of her husband's clothes and abstract therefrom any cash assets that she may find. His honor's dle- tum merely affirms the judgment handed down by millions of matrons in this and other lands. The law on the subject may be reduced to the legal maxim, “finders keepers." Misdirected Postal Reform. Chicago Chronicle. Postal reform, like charity, should be- gin at home. Before we reduce foreign letter postage we should bring the local service up to the standard of foreign local service. Before we reduce foreign letter Feell mestic rate to 1 cent. There is no clamor for such a reduction. The demand of the American clties especlally is not for a cheaper stamp, but for a better servic Better service will cost more money. We cannot afford to be generous with foreign- ers before we are just to ourselves. The Lady as the Cow. New York Sun. Solomon In South Omaha. The Hon. Charles Epstein asserted that he was the owner of a certaln Jersey cow. He ar- rested the cow. Mrs. Emma Houghman had him arrested and brought replevin pro- ceedings. Then she summoned the cow as a witness. The judge directed that the cow be brought Into court. Mrs. Houghman called the cow by name. “Immediately the Jersey walked over to her and kissed her by rubbing her muzzle against Mrs. Hough- man’s face.” Thrice the cow then testified. | The judge couldn't help glving judgment for the plaintiff; and so the lady and the Jersey went out of court happy. INDUSTRIAL SUCCESS. Strange Protest Against American Methods in England. Indianapolls News. We get a glimpse of British imdustrial methods that shows that the employer 18 as badly inoculated with the false economy of the relation of work and wages as s the employe. There is an American electrical works at Manchester. It has been paying wages 33 per cent higher than the rate pre- vailing there, with a result of getting all ot‘ the best labor. The Employers’ Federation of Manchester has remonstrated with the American concern, saying that this is de- moralizing the condition of things. But the Americans reply that, though they do | pay twelve pence an hour where the English works pay nine, they get twice as much work done for | herefore, that the higher wages are demonstrably cheaper than the lower. This is a simple fact of industrial economy as well as human nature, though 1t has not indeed, In its philosophy, been always recognized In this country. Ameri- can labor has been taught that wages are naturally higher with us and that, there- fore, the employer must have a heavy tariff so that he can pay them, whereas | the American laborer has won his higher| wages because he has worked for them. He has given the equivalent or he never would have got ther The Manthester employers, imitating the America ‘e trylng to drag the wages down to the old level, although it is manifest that these old wages are dearer for them than the new increased wages, In this they act precisely as British trades unionism has acted, and as American trades unionism has acted when it has tried to compel a uniform rate for a poor and a good workman and to limit produc- tion. The Manchester incident shows the dry rot from which British industrialism is suffering, shared by the employer and the employe. The admonition in it for us is that our supremacy is won by hard work and can be maintained only by hard work. As soon as we limit ambition and industry, hamper output and enforce a soclalism that makes the best man in the lot fall back abreast of the poorest, regulate the whole procession by the gait of the weakest in it, then we shall fall to that low level just | as certainly as the law of gravitation acts. Advance in the world {s made and kept by those that strip for the contest and do the | best that is in them. In the long run the man as well as the nation wins the greatest reward that works the hards ORIGIN OF THE “MESSAGE.” instead of President Jefferson Given Credit for Indianapolis Journal. eingular fact that the term “message,’” now universally aplied to an executive communication to congress, does not appear in the Constitution. Nelther was it used in the early years of the gov- ernment. The Cgnstitution says the pre dent “shall from time to time give to the congress information of the state of the union and recommend to their considera- tion such measure he shall judge ne sary and expedient.” Washington and John Adams read their first annual “com- munications” to congress in persom, and their subsequent ones were sent in writing. All were styled “addresses.” In “Messages and Papers of the Presidents,” edited by Representative Richardson, the eight an- nual messages of Washington and the four of John Adams are styled ‘“addres 1] Jefferson inaugurated the om, since followed by all of his successors, of eend- ing all messages in writing to congress, and the term message was first applied to his annual message of 1801. In communi- cating it to congress Jefferson addreased the following letter to the presiding officer of each branch: “Sir—The circumstances under which we find ourselves at this place rendering ln- convenient the mode heretofore practiced of making by personal address the first communication between the legislative and executive branches, I have adopted that by message, as used on all subsequent oc casions through the session. In doing this I have had principal regard to the conm- venlence of the legislature, to the economy of their time, to their relief from the em- barrassment of immediate answers on sub- jects not yet fully before them, and to the benefits thence resulting to the public af- faire. Trusting that a procedure founded on these motives will meet their approba- tion, 1 beg leave through you, sir, to com- municate the Inclosed message, with the doguments accompanying it, to the honor- able the senate, and pray you to accept for yourself the homage of my high respect and consideration.” This is the first oficial use of the term “message.” The inconvenient eircumstance alluded to was probably the bad road be- tween the White House and the capitol. Prior to this it had been customary for the senate and the house each to make a separate reply in writing to the president's communication, which reply was delivered to him at the White House as soon as possible after bis communication was re. celved. With the beginning of Jefferson's edministzation this practice ceased. {am not married. All MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1902. BITS OF WASHINGTON LIFE, or Scenes and the Spot. Newspaper correspondents at the national capital show a poverty of appreciation of the White the new business annex of House. They do not like it. The archi- tecture, the perspective, the entrances and the exits are not at all to their liking and they have pounced upon it with critical pens until it has become in their estimation what Bill Nye would designate “a low- browed architectural wart.” The secrot of their grievances is out. In the original White House big and little callers went in the big front door and came out that way. There was no back door exit by which statesmen might escape the myrmidons on the press who held the fort in front. But the annex is provided with a rear exit and a safe retreat for secretive visitors. Of course, a room is provided for the press— a room with a window commanding the road, the path and the fromt door of the office section. Here is a mahogany table for Cerberus, with easy chairs conducive to dozing and a warm, equable temperature and all the comforts of home. Here the “gentlemen of the press” are encouraged to congregate and receive glowing words from accommodating patron: While the boys are waiting for thelr prey, “This way, my dear Lodge,” the executive is remarking. “Perhaps you would rather not face the press just mow. This way, through the passage into the old part, out tho eastern door, down the path. all un- guarded, toward the treasury. Good day, Friend Lodge. Come n!” And the senator departs by the private exit, and the business—and myhap even the fact—of his eall is not heralded to the world. Senator Hanna knows how to point a joke or an anecdote, relates the Washington Post. He was bantering Senator “Billy" Mason the other day about nursing a presi- dential boom. “How will you fix it about your seat in the senate while you are running for the presidency yourself?' retorted Mr. Mason. “You remember the story of two Irish- ! men who got loaded?” said the Ohlo sena- tor. ““Their names were Mike and Pat. They tried to stick together, but got on different sides of the street, and soon found themselves hugging the same lamp- post. “‘Pat,’ observed Mike, ‘how are ye? “‘Oh, O'im pretty well. Come over here.’ ‘I can't.’ ‘And why?' * ‘Because I have me hands full staying where I am.’ " “It I were in control of the organization of letter carriers,” sald a member of con- gress, quoted by the Brooklyn Eagle corre- spondent, “I would guarantee to defeat any candidate for congress in a city district that our men might have against. And, further, if I were at the head of the rural free delivery carriers, I would be able to whip any candidate for congress in the country who might oppose the wishes of the organization. These men have opportunities to do political can- vassing that no one else has and if they were properly handled there is no telling what their influence could accomplish. On the train coming to Washington I met a politician from Lincole, Neb. We got to talking about politics when he drew from his inside pocket a long list of names and said: ‘I have here the foundation for the finest political organization ever con- structed outside of Tammany hall. Here is a roll of the rural free delivery car- rlers in the state of Nebraska. I propo: to organize these men for political pur- poses. It may take some time to do it, but the labor will be well rewarded by the results. Th men go to every ho in the rural districts throughout the state. They talk with the farmer, his wife and the hired man and naturally have wonderful opportunities for molding opinion. A word dropped here and there among these semi- isolated people will accomplish much. It's a great scheme, and just as soon as T get ck home I propose to start the ball rolling." " With true southern chivalry the clerk of the joint committee on printing refuses to give out the name of the writer of this letter, which was received recently: “Joint Committee on Printing, the Cap- itol: Gentlemen—Please do not give date of papa’s marriage in the next edition of the congressional directory. I am the eld- est daugiter, and the date given in the directory is a clean giveaway for me, as I the boys look up the date and then calculate. Papa prom- ised to attend to this for me before the first edition came out, but says he forgot it. I do mot think any end of the govern- ment can be served by thus giving away my age, 80 please attend to it. Yours re- epecttully, Congressman A. J. Hopkins of Illinols says that Senator Dolliver of Iowa is a hoodoo. A year ago when the congress- man was starting to Washington to attend the opening of congress he met Dolliver The senator at once brought ive powers into play and {n- duced Mr. Hopkins to share Dolliver's state- room to Washington. The train was wrecked and, although neit the senator nor the congressman was injured they ar- rived too late to hear the chaplain make the opening prayer. This year when Mr. Hopkins reached Chicago from Aurora on his way to Washington whom should he meet but Senator Dolliver. ‘“Come, ride with me to Washington,” said Dolliver to “No," Hopkins in his most alluring tones. the prospect of a lonesome twenty-four- hour ride and he argued accordingly. The upshot of it was that he won Mr, Hopkins over and they started together to the cap- ital. Just west of Pittsburg the train was wrecked. Mr. Hopkins' head was jammed 80 hard against the end of his berth that he thought his neck was broken. A spectal train was hitched up and the senator and the congressman were landed in Washing- in the doings of the first day of the session. Neverth ts that Dolliver is VALUE OF CHEERFULNESS, Keynote of Happiness Passpert to Public Favor, Philadelphla Ledger. Cheerfulness and good nature have a value in the market. The lack of them e: plains the slow progrees of the downfall of persons otherwise sufiiciently endowed. A good sale has often been missed because the salesmap repelled by his unfortunate manner, though he may have been a good The cheery clerk es| lishes & clientage and holds his place be- cause he 18 skilled In the fine art of friend- liness. One s willing to pay a good price for cheerful service. It I8 not quite enough to do a thing well. It should be done graciously. Those who sing at their tasks, as many workmon do, have learned the socret of getting on in the wor and making the best of it. A gracious manner, all the world knows, explains the rise of many men in political and official life, so thst mere good fello statesmanship. The popular politician al- most invariably bas a sunny greeting for all sorts and conditions of men. This is the cldents Sketched a grievanceY hip is often accepted for | The Railroad Rake-Off Chicago Inter Ocean. From the beginning of the controversy between capital and labor in the anthra clte region many of the mining compa nies have contended that they could not pay higher wages, and have pointed to their low dividends or no dividends as proot. It has been frequently suggested that the controlling shareholders of the mining companies, who are practically the same men as the controlling shareholders In the coal-carrying raillway companies, charged themselves exorbitant freight rates and so took their profita in railroad dividends in- stead of in mine dividends. A table of freight rates recently com- plled by the Interstate Commerce commis- slon seems to afford comcrete proof that this suggestion is true—so far as it goes That it does not go far enough may be shown hereafter. From this table it ap- pears that the railroads interested charge: For carrylng a ton of bituminous coal to Jersey City—346 to 388 miles—$1.70 But they charged for carryiug & ton of anthracite coal to Boston—345 to 387 miles —$3.25, For the same distance the charge on anthracite was practically double the charge on bituminous. For carrying a ton of coal from the bty ninous region to Baltimore—220 to 240 es—the charge was $1.45. But for & & ton of anthracite to Baltimore 179 to 224 miles—the charge was §2. For carrying anthracite a distance averaging 23 miles less cents a ton more was charged The hard coal trust, when confronted with such facts, replies that the coal- earrying roads do not pay huge dividends and that some of them have paid no divi- dends for years. And that is true. On the other hand, it is also true that these roads which pay small dividends or no dividends have been frequently ‘“reorganized” and their nominal capital ewollen with every reorganization. From these two sots of facts it is casy 10 see where the profits of the hard coal industry have gone and are going. They have gone and are going into the pockets of promoters and reorganizers. If they are mot taken In dividends now these profits have been taken in advance by the sale of Inflated stock and are being taken now in fitnerest on bonds issued to effect the reorganization. ‘These are all very simple facts, but they also are very luminous ones. philosophy of his success. It would have served him well in any calling in which he | might have been engaged. Here and there | one may advance to great heights of success and fame who has pushed his way upward despite a cold and forbldding manner. We speak of the rule of success, not its excep- tlon. The value of a eunny disposition is evi- dent in all occupations which bring persons in contact with the public. The man who presides in the ticket office of the rallway station, the conductor on a raflroad train or a street car, the clerk behind the coun- ter and others who serve the public dally have need for this great endowment. They may be serving angels unawares. Wherever found a cheerful man or woman “is a bet- ter thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room s as though another candle had been lighted. We need not care whether they can solve the forty- seventh proposition; they do a better thing than that, they practically demonstrate the great theorem of the lovableness of life.” PERSONAL NOTES, Cleveland will erect a new city hell, pub- lic Mbrary and eourt house in a group, with a great court running from the public square to the water front. President John Mitchell of the mine workers’ unfon will write a book on “Cap- ital and Labor,” based on the great an- thracite strike In Pennsylvania. A. J. Alexander, the moted breeder of blooded stock, who has just died at his home in Lexington, Ky., had in his pos- sesslon more rare china and curiosities secured in extensive travel than any other gontleman In the south. Peter English, manager of the Boulder (Colo.) Gas company, has discovered a process for extracting an excellent quality of gas from lignite coal, which abounds in Colorado. This will open a market for a large product that is now practically value~ less. There is a reminder of the late Dr. Burch- ard’s famous “Rum, Romanism and Rebel- lion” alliteration in & remark made by Rev. Mr. Tunnell of Washington. In dis- cussing the negro problem he sald it must be approached with “soap, soup and salva- tion.” Willlam 8. Devery, formerly police chiet of New York City, paid his taxes the other day and the amount he turned over shows that “Big BIL" is in the millionaire class. In his twenty-three y service as an officer of the law Devery drew salary to the amount of $58,909. In answer to the academy’s annual ques- tlon to eminent Englishmen as to the new books they have read with the most pleas- ure the last year, Herbert Spencer writes that he has not read any mew books, while Prof. Skeat of Cambridge university says that he has read uonme, having ‘“quite enough to do to read the old ones.” A reminder of Jerry Simpson’s prosperity has reached the United States senate cloak room from New Mexico. It is in the form of a large box of beautiful apples grown on Jerry's ranch in the Pecos valley. The former Kansan is a strong advocate of statehood for New Mexico and possibly the apples did not hurt the cause he has at heart. Congressman James K. P. Hall, one of the democrats from Pennsylvania, will not serve in the next house. The last republican gery- mander put him in a district overwhelm- ingly opposed to his party, o he accepted the nomination for state senator. He was elected almost without opposition and his salary as senator will begin on December 1. Not caring to draw two salaries—and not needing either, for he is a millionaire—he will hand his resignation to Speaker Hen- derson. The death of Mr. Reed leaves only three ex-speakers of the house still living—Ga- lusha A. Grow, who was wielding the gavel forty. years ago and is a member of the present house; J. Warren Keifer, who pre- sided in 1881, and Jobn G. Carlisle, who served from 1883 to 1889, inclusive. It 1s noteworthy in this connection that by rea- son of the retirement of Speaker Henderson and ex-Speaker Grow the next congress will be the first in many years in which no man sits who was ever speaker of the hou: “ Doesn’t cough much through the day. comes that he coughs so hard.” Don’t let these night coughs THE DUTY TO A NAME. Pointed Lesson to Men of Mark in a Community, New York World. A man was asked to invest some money in an insurance company. He eaw in the list of directors such names as Chauncey M. Depew, John Jacob Astor, Benjamin F. Tracy, Levl P. Morton. He invested $60,000. The insurance company is now dead. He has lost his money and Is suing the directors to recover it. Seve eral prominent men have already pald him $2,000 each, realizing that they were duped in allowing the use of their names. This should be a lesson to men of mark in the community. He who has made a uame for himself owes to it a duty. The wily promoter is happy if he gets the name of one prominent man as a di- rector. Other prominent men say to themselves. “If So-and-So is in it, It must be all right.” If * nd-So” has investi- gated the enterprise it must be “‘all right,” but the chances are that he has not. There have been cases where the uame of a prominent man has been used without authority as a lure for others. Every busi- ness man owes 1t to the community to allow his name to be associated with nothing ha has not thoroughly and personally ex- amined. LINES TO A LAUGH. Washington Star: “Many a man,” said Uncle Eben, “thinks he's a gettin’ sumfin’ foh puffin’,’ when, in reality he's done a hahd day’s work fixin' up fairy stort Philadelphia Record: Wigwag—It makes me hustle to pay my rent. Harduppe—The question of rent keeps me moving, 100, New York Times: Jaggles—Are relatives of yours near or distant? Waggles—The anes who have any money are very distant. Brooklyn Life: “But there's plenty of olitics,"” said his f “Oh, yes,” said the politiclan, “but, ltke other remunerative lines, it's overcrowded.” Chicago Tribune: “What do you know about this case?’ asked the lawyer. ~Nothing,” replied the witness. “I'm the xpert.” ubsequently his testimony proved con clusively that he knew less than nothing. Philadelphia Catholic Standard: FHioks-— Beckham's wife has quite a temper, hasn't she Wicks—I can't say. She lost it the last time I was there, rnd I didn’t walt to see if she found it In. Smart Set: Mrs, Blank—Is your husband golng to Mrs. Jason's funeral? Mrs, Dash—Decidedly not! She never re- turned my last call. ‘Washington Star 1 trust your son does not read trashy juvenile literature.” “No, indeed,’” said the fond mother, “Wil- he gets all the blood and thunder e wants in the historical novels that his tather brings home." these Chicago Tribune: ‘“That orator is a deep thinker and a great speaker.” “How do you know." “Because "he discussed his subjects in such a way that there wasn't a soul could understand what he was driving at.” Philadelphia Catholic Standard: “T sup- pose,”” said the emaciated new arrival at the Colorado health resort, “all the people here have lung trouble.” “No,” replied the clerk, glancing involun- tarlly at the white stones dotting the dia- tant hillside, bles at all now. me of them have no trou- A MODERN PROFOSAL. Brooklyn Eagle. He voiced his admiration, But learned with consternation She had no time for Cupid. She spoke without emotion, And showed she had a notion That love was rather stupld. He promised ease and pleasure; 8he did not seem to tressure The Joys that he deplcted. Despising old _conditions, To feminine ambitions She would not be restricted. She scorned the protestations That once, throughout all nations, Fair woman had delighted; The time was now propitious For freedom most delicious, And greater deeds incited. " he cried, despairing, 'was waste of time declaring The love that I have tendered.” But then he thought to urge her To join him in & “‘merger," And stralghtway she surrendered. I's when night deceive you. Some day you may wake up to the fact that your boy is thin, pale, weak, even seriously ill. You can’t sa lung trouble. Cure the cough fely trifle with any throat or quickly with Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral It’s the same medicine your old doctor gave you when you were a child. The young doctors indorse it now, too, for coughs, colds, croup, bronchitis, consumption. Three slues | 25c., B, $1.00. herr: « 1 have the greatest confidence in Aye yoars and 4 C. AVER CO., Lowell, Mass. Pectoral. 1 never knew it o fail to break p & coid.” — CiARLES it