Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 20, 1902, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1902. 'HE ©OMAHA DAILY BEE. B RO!EWATBR‘ IDITOI. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING, TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIO! Dafly Bee (without Sunaay), One Dally Bee and Sunday, One Year Illustrated Bee, One Year. ear, $4.00 Bee, One Year z'un ay Bee, One Year. 10| T'enllun Century Farm 1% DELIVERED BY CARRIER. Dally Bee (without Sunday), per copy.... 30 | Daily Bee (without Sunday), per weel o Dally Bee (nciuding Sunday), per week..1jo Bunday Bec, per copy -4 Evening Bee (without Sunday), per week 6 Evening Bee Uncluding Sunday), per week 1 Complain! shouid be addressed 16 (_lly "Erevlation De- partment. OFFICES. Omaha—The Bee Butldin South Omaha—C Aty Hall Sanaing, Twen- ty-fitth and M Stre Gounell Blofts U6 Pear) Street. hicago—1640 Unity Buildin New York—2328 Park Row Huilding. Wasehington—#1 Fourteenth Stree! CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to news and edl- tortal matter should be addressed: Omaha Editorial Department. STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION. State of Nebraska, Dou George ' B. uck, y Bee Punu-mn' Company, being dul says that the actual number of sworn, ull_and complete coples of The DLally, Morning, o Evering and Sunday Bee printed during month of November, 1902, was as follow: .81,310 Total ... Less unsold and returned cople Net total sales.. Net average sales. GEORGE B. TZSCHUCK. Subscribed in my presence and sworn to before me this 30th dALDl hovembe TE (Eeul) Nnt-ry Publie. Just now the market makes the price of eggs look like 30 cents. About the only 'thmx necessary to reciprocity with Canada is to have Can- ada reciprocate somewhat. —_— The cattle kings have locked horns with the “bronco buster” and found him altogether too many for them. E———— One thing is certain: Bowen could run the Venezuelan government better than any one who has held the job for a long time. — On second shuffle, Venezuela sees 8o many hands dealt out that it is serl- ously considering cashing In and stop- plng the play. As long Admiral Dewey is doing business no one in this country will lose any sleep through fear some other navy may outmatch ours. EE—— The weather man appears to be unde- clded whether to let S8anta Claus use an automobile or compel him to go his old gait with sleigh and reindeer. mepmase— The ship laying the Pacific cable is making slow progress, but the time will be quickly- made up when the cable is once lald and In working order. e The auditorium board has been reor- ganized. Now let the board reorganize its plan of campaign on lines that will sure the completion of the structure during the coming year. e Guatemala may be the next victim of Buropean attack, as the losses of Ger- man investors alone from the recent voleanic eruption in that country are estimated at $6,250,000. e———_ Many of the alleged witticlsms now credited to the late Thomas B. Reed are enough to make that statesman turn over In his grave. It Is too bad he is not living to protect his reputation. E——— From thelir interviews on prospective legislation affecting Omaha members- elect of the Douglas delegation to the legislature must be having a strenuous time of it making up thelr minds what they want to do. There is all the difference in the world between those who are for reciprocity because they are for protection and those who are for reciprocity because they are against protection—a differ- ence, however, which many intelligent people have not sufficiently noted. eS———— With the railroads in the corn belt unable te supply the cars necessary to haul the grain offered for shipment, the car famine is on for these roads at the same time as the car famine for the coal-carrying roads. One car famine at & time has usually sufficed for us. Em—— If Omaha is to take a spurt ahead of Rs commercial competitors it must do something that will give it a distinct ad- ventage In attracting new capital ang population. Cheap power as the basis of manufacturing industry would do this most effectually. = ‘It is Intimated from Washington that Bo new appointment to the position of United. States district attorney will be made until the two Nebraska senators agree upon a man. If so, the present incumbent will be strongly In favor of a perpetual deadlock. S———— Real estate never escapes the asses- sor’s eye. Real estate therefore must be the beneficlary of any achlevement in the direction of tax reform that enlarges the assessment roll by Including prop- erty previously overlooked or only par tially assessed. Redl estate men should mark this point down. = Governor-elect Mickey I8 making a personal inspection of all the state Instl- tutions with a view to familiarizing him- self with their conditions and needs so he may act intelligently when. the time comes for him to exercise executive au- thority over thém. This has a decidedly A BATTLE OF TRUSTS. The Berlin correspondent of one of the leading commercial journals of this country writes that sllent but power- fully organized forces, Including .a combination of the leading German kartells, are at work to check the Amer- fean invasion. Continued industrial de- pression in Germany and the inroads of American imports have forced the large manufacturing and trade interests to drop petty differences in order to pre- sent a solid resistance to the latest forms of the so-called American peril. It is stated that slowly but surely the American combines have been forced from an aggressive into a defensive po- sition. Hitherto, says the correspond- ent, the resistance to American rivalry was spasmodic and disjointed, but now representative and leading German kartells, controlling all branches of in- dustry and trade, have united upon a co- operative program to eject foreign com- petitors. To this movement it is sald the gov- ernment has indirectly given its sup- port, the home secretary being now en- gaged in gathering all avallable data In regard to American trusts and combines for the purpose of showing the connec- tlon between the branch organizations operating in Germany and the parent combines. This applies especially to the Standard Ofl, the cotton monopoly, the American tobacco, the Chlcago meat combine and the International Steam- ship combination. While this official Inquiry 1s In progress there is going on an active discussion among the Inter- ests concerned of the question of ways and means for meeting the American competition. Thus It appears that the German trusts have seriously entered upon a struggle against the competition in the markets of Germany of some of the more formidable of the American combinations and the indications are that the fight Is to be most earnestly and vigorously waged. It seems inevitable that this move- ment must result in materially reduc- ing our trade with Germany and in con- nection with the exclusion of our meats under the operation of the new tariff law will effect an impairment of our German commerce that will be serious, For some years the trade with Ger- many has been very largely in favor of this country, but the heavy balances of past years are not likely to be repeated If the proposed policy of Germany is carried out and adhered to. So far as the organization of the German kartells to resist American competition is con- cerned, that is a matter for the Amer- lean combinations to wrestle with, but in regard to the new tarlff our govern- ment should consider what may be done to relieve our commerce of the restric- tions which that tariff imposes. It is understood to leave & way open by which fts terms can be modified through evidence of monppoly and while not a matter within the scope of the commission’s investigation, there are other ways of gettting at an exposition of the connectlon between the railroads and the mine owners. It would seem that the federal anti-trust law could be Invoked and perhaps an inquiry in re- gard to rates charged for carrying an- thracite coal, in which discrimination mgalnst the independent operators hag been alleged, would be an order. That some action will soomer or later be taken in regard to the anthracite mo- nopoly ought to be an entirely safe pre- diction. WHAT IS THE MINE WORKER'S WAGE? The point in the coal strike investiga- tion that the public would like to under- stand s precisely the one on which the testimonv, so far as published, is not clear—what are the actual averages of wages pald to the various classes of working men employed in the mines? The core of the dispute Is the standard of wages, the employers insisting that the wages are reasonable and the union employes that they are too low. It is singular that after such a mass of tes- timony has accumulated the general public at least has no definite notion of what the wages really are. It is true that some scores of wit- nesses on behalf of the union have tes- tified what pay they, each for himself, have received. But there are 140,000 mine-workers and the experience of a handful does not establish the average of all, and there is suggestion that even that handful may be largely made np of extreme cases. On the other hand, the pay rolls of some of the proprietary companlies have been introduced, but it has been demonstrated that they are wholly misleading, as the pay standing in the name of one employe constitutes in fact the wages divided among sev- eral. While from the general tenor of the testimony and from many circumstances known Independently of it, the public has the impression that the average wage of mine workers Is inadequate, it is impossible to get a precise Idea of how much more pay should be added 4o make it adequate. The mine-work- ers are now employed at identically the same rates that have heretofore ruled, and it ought to be possible to show the result at once concisely and clearly to general public comprehension. And if the actual pay for the chief classes of workers in the mines, If not of the whole anthracite region at least of some of its divisions, were definitely known, it would go far to clear up the situation. ORGANIZE A TAX REFURM CAMPAIGN, The Nebraska Real Estate assoclation has, after full discussion, decided to take an active interest in tax reform. The first step in this direction has been the appointment of a legislative committee a commercial treaty and iIf such is the case it would seem to be the wise course to consider whether a satisfactory treaty can be negotiated. It is certalnly mokt desirable to maintaln our large and profitable trade with Germany and we should seek to do this' by all proper means, EE— THE PERENNIAL SLAL TROUBLE. A reopening of the seal question with Great Britain is promised, the secre- tary of the treasury having asked the Department of State to take the steps necessary to again place the matter be- fore the British authorities. It is stated to be the belief of Recretary Shaw that American citizens are being unjustly diseriminated against as a result of the enforcement of the Parls award and the agreements with England that grow out of the decisions handed down by that tribunal. That award prohibited sub- Jects of Great Britain and citizens of the United States from killlng seals within a prescribed limit around the Pribilov islands, but this limitation does not apply to the ships of cther natlons and Japanese and others are killing seals in waters that cannot he lawfully invaded by American and British seal- ers, The seal question was for years a sonrce of controversy and irritation be- tween the governments of the United States and Great Britain, but it was thought to have been finally disposed of by the Parls award and the treaty which foliowed it. It now reappears, with the promise of adding another vol- ure of diplomatic correspondence on the subject. There is pending in con- gress a bill providing for the removal of all restrictions which now protect the seals of the Bering sea, some of those who see only injustice to Americans in the present method of regulating the catch holding that the only vroper <olu- tion of the question is to utterly ex- terminate the seal, which wonid be ac- complished in a brief time '# the patrol of Bering sea by revenue cutters should be abandoned and the fleld left open to all. —— 4 REGRETABLE LIMITATION. The Ncw York Journal of Commerce remarks that while the anthracite coal strike commission is fully fustified In confining its Investigation to the mnt- ters In controvérsy between the mine workers and the operators, it is to be regretted that a full exposition cannot be made of the connection between the railroads énd’ the mine owners and the bearing which the rate of freight charged has on the general conditions of the industry, The clalm that a mo- nopoly exists in the anthracite industry seems to be fully justified by the facts of the ownership by certain railroads of extensive mining properties in the an- thracite field, the community of director- ship between the rallreads and mining companies, the joint! resistance of ‘the coal-carrying reads, to the building of an Independent rallroad by the fodi- vidual operators, the community of In- terests between the rallroads and their mining companies and the constant ac- quisition of new property i the coal fields by the rallroads. business flavor that foreshadows well mflhfimmw& that 1s expected to formulate amend- ments to revenue laws wherever they are defective and suggest new legisla- tiom deemed imperative for a-more equit- able and just dlltrlbutlon of the tax burdens. This action on the part of the Real Estate association should commend itself to all classes of citizens interested In tax reform, but we fear it does not go far enough. The appointment of a legislative committee from among its membership is a step In the right di- rection, but that step must be supple- mented by an educational campaign that will arouse public sentiment that will impress itself upon the coming leg- islature. The most effective method for focaliz- ing public sentiment upon any issue is through local organization and the dis- cussion of the tax question in every town, village and school district of the stafe. Legislation recommended and urged by the Real Estate assoclation through its legislative comm!ttee would, doubtless, have some weight with the coming legislature, but resolutions passed in public meetings in every town and village and petitions signed by a majority of the tax-paying farmers and merchants of the state would have much greater welght. Tax reform through revenue law re- vislon s not likely to be secured without a great struggle with the glant corpora- tions that have for years evaded their Just burdens of taxation. These corpo- rations will be represented in the lobby by professional lobbyists and the ablest lawyers money can command. They will, moreover, exert a pernicious influ- ence through favored shipperswand allied interests that often control legislation to the detriment of the general public. To overcome these potential forces it will require direct pressure from -the great mass of voters upon their repre- sentatives. The campaign for tax re- form must be fought and won in the open arena and popular sentiment must make itself felt through non-partisan or- ganizations of taxpayers. e One of the subjects of discussion be- fore the Nebraska Real Estate associ; tion was “How to Advertise Nebraska. The best way to advertise the state is to let the state advertise itself by honest, economic self-government and low taxes. The next best way to advertise the state 1s by a liberal support of Nebraska news- papers. The greatness of a state and the character of its population is im- pressed upon the outside world by the quality of its press. If the newspapers of a state are liberally encouraged and supported by its people they will be able to rise to a higher plane. If they are stunted and starved for lack of patron- age they indicate decadence instead of progress and repel immigration and in- vestment instead of attracting It. — The measure proposed by Member Ho- man of the school board to reduce the vate of interest on school warrants de- sérves the consjderation of the legisla- tare. There I8 no question but what in- térept rates have fallen materially in the last few years and no good reason why the taxpayery should not have the ben- efit of lower Interest rates when they float Interest-bparing warrants. The warrant beokets will doubtless enter flgorous pfotekt, bt the public is under no obligations to instre them a profitable business at ¢he expense of the public treasury. Offictal erop reports for Nebraska would be a good thing for the state. Up o the present the neavest to an official crop report we have had is that compiled by The Bee through its corps of correspondents, but the compllation of these statistics should be at the pub- lic expense, because all the advantage accrues to the taxpayers and citizens. In this respect. Nebraska Is behind sev- eral of it§ neighboring states. gl - i s bcrie The new owners of the consolidated Omaha & Couneil Bluffs Street Railway company seem to Have carefully post- poned the final steps of reorganization until after the assessment for the city tax levy had been made up. Never mind, the street railroad will still be here next year when the assessor makes his round. Most of the tariff Jack-the-Rippers, after having scanned the political sky and duly perused the Congressional Record, have concluded to commit no depredations till the next congress meets. In the Interval they can at least cherish the hope that times will not be s0 good then. — Not Looking for Treuble, but— 8t Louls Globe-Democrat. Admiral Dewey's coat tail {s quite long and it is trailing right under the bows of some of those European battleships. Better not run afoul of it. Doing Quite W, Thank Yeu. ‘Washington Post. The executive head of New Yotk's new $10,000,000 financial lustitution started in as & messenger. ‘The boy Absalom continues to do very well, Mr. Bryan, Promoting National Gaiety, Balttmore American. l(ll s ““Me, too,” attitude in the Anglo- Gérman demonstration makes the declara- tion of one of her deputies that the Monroe doctrine has been knocked sky high tunny enough for a comic almanac. Cause of the Foreign Rush, Ban Francisco Chronicle. The conclusion of the British labor union committee now investigating industrial con- ditions in this country that the working- man in America is 25 per cent better off than he is in Britain is doubtless correct. At any rate the immigration statistics con- firm it. First Cateh Your Hare. Indianapolls Journal. Senator Morgan of Alabama has a plan for colonizing the negroes of the United States in the Philippines. Now who will devise a plan to induce the negroes to go? They cannot b::xm"“d ‘without. their con- sent. of first catch your hare, for Shareholders, Springfield Republican. The Standardt DIl company has increased the price of uct to jobbers by 314 cents a gallo] the beginning of the coal strike. ent” of thia advance fis just being anneunged to the trade. At the me time t pany declares a divi- dend of 10 p % 4This follows a dls- tribution of 5 ger cent in September of 10 per cent in ‘and of 20 per cent in March of this. tribution of 45 ar—making a total dis- er cent for 1002. Capital In the competitfve matkets has to be con- tent with 3 to jer cent. Is the Standard 01l company, then, & good trust or a bad one? A Bomb in the Baron’'s Camp. Chicago Chronicle. It Judge Gra: declaration the other day is to be taken as foreshadowing the re- port of the coal strike commission Brother Baer will have further occaslon for lamen- tation and protest. Mr. Gray sald plainly and unreservedly that any employer who cannot afford to pay his workmen living wages ought to go out of business. Of course everyone knows that the coal barons can pay such wages if they want to do so, but they have maintained steadily that they cannot. *Hence there will be much indigna- tion in the baronial camp if the commission finds in accordance with the facts, as It seems likely to do. Scarcity of Naval Officers. Philadelphla Record. It is apparent that our mew war vessels cannot be properly officered of manned without greater fhducement than now exist Young men cannot fit themselves for a faring life without the sacrifice of larger opportunity of getting on in the world in other purspits. . Battleships and crulsers are the costliesf toys of war. The nation cannot afford to futrust to the management of inexperieniced men or epaulated block- heads the great International argument which finds final expression in the thunder of their guns. There is talent enough in the country to keep the flag high advanced on sea as well as on land, but, especially in time of peace, only adequate pay will serve to secure adequate result. Pour Out the Tea. Philadelphia Press. The abolition of the duty of 10 cents a pound on tea, which takes effect on Jan- uary 1, has led tea importers into a serious blunder. They have been storing up tea in bonded warehouses expecting it to be free trom duty on January 1. There are 65,000,000 pounds now in storage, but the merchants have fust discovered that the law does not provide for the free emtrance of any tea imported before the new act takes effect. The treasury officials seem to bave been misled in the matter and Secretary Shaw has now asked congre to pass an act to relieve this 65,000,000 pounds of tea from duty. If that is not done the import- ers, who could have sold a large quantity of it before January 1, bad they not been misled, will suffer a great loss because of their error. P owing of Trafic M Kansas City Star. In the hearing before the Interstate Commerce commission with reference to showing why the railroads should maintain the advances recently made In freight rates, Mr. Grammer, trafic manager of the Lake Shore road, salc that the net earnings had not been sustaining their accustomed relations to the gross earnings. Mr. Gram- mer admitted, however, that while it costs only about $260—the expense of operation, wages, fuel, oll and waste taken into con- siderstion—to run a train of fifty car loads of grain from Chicago to Buffalo, the reve- nues of such & trpnsaction are $3,600. If wer. OTHER LANDS THAN OURS, The method of votipg in the British Par- Tlament s cumbersome to the extreme. It Is different from that of any legislativo body in this country. When a division la called for and a vote is ordered, the mem- bers rise solemnly from their seats, and in- stend of remaining standing until counted, either for or against a motion, they file out into the lobby, where they range themselves on one side or the other and are counted by the “whips” of the oppos- ing parties appointed for that purpcse. Then the members walk back to their seats and the vote i announced by the “whips'™ and repeated.by the speaker, who declares the motion carried or lost, as the case may be. Thus, on the educational bill, which has been before Parliament since June 3, a legislative sharp estimates that fifty hours have been wasted in walking to and from the lobbles. There have been in all 246 divisions, and it ia found that each one of them consumes twelve minutes. A work- ing week in Parliment provides for four and a half hours in the afternoon and three hours in the evening for debate on Mon- day, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and seven hours on Friday, or thirty-seven hours altogether. Hence a solid week and a third bas been expended In mere pedes- trianism. At no time have the opponents of the bill found the government napping, and the average majorities have been maintained at over 100. o Egypt has an area of 400,000 square miles, but only about 13,000 square miles of fertile land. The Egypt of history and of today has been compared in shape to a long-stemmed water lily lald flat on the sand, with a single leaf in the Fayum oasis and a bud at the Nile delta. The country that in all ages has been called the granary of the world has been just a strip of land a few miles wide along either bank of the Nile. Assuan adds another leaf to the lily plant, and a mighty one. It In- creases the area of habitable Egypt more than 20 per cent. No other engineering work of modern times, achieved so quickly and at s0 moderate a cost, promises 8o much. The British plque themselves at times on the resemblance of the mission they have undertaken in the world to the mission accomplished by the Romans. One is reminded In the presence of their dam on the Nile of the anclent people whose great military roads through Europe are used to this day. Signor Glolotti, the Itallan minister of the interlor, 1s the political sponeor of a bill, mow before Parliament, which pro- vides for a wholesale municipalization of different trades and eccupations. It even directs that the municipal authorities shall take charge of the bakeries in the event of there being any rise In the cost of | bread. All forms of locomotion and of transport are to be in the hands of the municipality, and even funerals are to be under the direction of the local authori- ties. The Popolo Romano and other new papers are pointing out that the govern- ment will make a great mistake if it thinks that enterprisee of this kind will prove as profitable under public as under private management, and the proposed sys tem of the compensation of private owners is also criticised sharply. Tradesmen com- panies, and others who businesses are to be absorbed, are to recelve the value of their plant, and an additional amount for loss or profit, to be calculated upon the av- erage receipts in five years. It is pointed out that such procedure would be mani- testly unjust to newly established enter- prises, promising great tuture returns, but run temporarily at a loss. . In response to Lord Milner's appeal for women emigrants to South Africa, the South African expansion committee has sent out in the last four months 500 girls from London, and this is only 40 per cent of those who have applied. All candidates must be passed as physically fit, not ohly by & local, but by a government doctor, the standard of bodily health being that which would entitle the applicant to a first-class life Insurance policy. When the form has been filled up and the references as to character and capability have been examined and found to be perfectiy satis- factory, the would-be emigrant is notified that she is accepted and is told the ship by which she is to sail, and her anxieties are at an end. Such girls are selected from the country districts are collected in a house in London, whence they are dis- ‘hed, generally in good épirits, for the cape. The fare for them fis $6 mainder being pald by the committee, and, when necessary, this $60 is also advanced. The girls go to take positions ervants. nurses and governesses, and, of courwe, with the idea of getting married, If pos- sible, though no matrimonial arrangements THE OLD RELIABLE Absolutely Pure THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE CABLE ACROSS THE PACIFIC. dy Completion Promised by the Promoters. 8t, Louls Globe-Democrat There {8 & pramise that the first section of the Pacific cable, that stretching from San Franeiseo to Honolulu, in Hawalf, will be completed by January 1, less than three weeks hence. This is what the men at the bead of the enterprise say. The remalnder of the cable, starting from Hawall and stretching to the Philippines, by way of the United States' island of Guam, will, &0 of next June. The entire length of the ca- ble {s figured at 10,000 nautical miles and when 1t {s completed there will be direct telegraphic communication all around the world by that line and its connections. It s promised that the entire circuit can be made in ten minutes. All this is pleasing news for the Ameri- can people. There fe, of course, complete telegraphic communication all around the globe at the present time by way of tho new British cable from Canada, so far as regards the Pacific part of the circuit. The one from San Francleco, however, will be an American line and it will touch all our fmportant possessions in the Pacific north of the equator. There has long been a necessity for an American telegraph across the Pacific, which, of course, has been ren- dered Imperative by the annexation of Hawail and the Philippines. Nobody doubts that the new cable will add largely to the influence of the Amer- fcans in the trade with A At the pre- sent time the United States is making more rapid gains in the commerce with China and most of the other countries of Asia than {8 any other country. The new cable will add largely to our facilities for getting new trade. Moreover, it will be a great convenlence and benefit for us in our deal- ings with our own territory in the Pacific. There will not be anything ltke the jubila- tions in the United States in 1903 when the Pacific cable is finished that there were here when, in 1858, Cyrus W. Field's firet Atlantic cable was completed, but there will be a celebration in San Francisco, nevertheless, which will attract the atten- tion of the people of the whole country. POLITICAL DRIFT, Opposition to the re-eleetfon of Senator Spooner in Wisconsin has praetically dis- appeared. Tammany is looking around for a candi- date for mayor to run next spring. Con- gressman McClellan is the present favorite. The state of Missouri will soon be out of debt, €0 the authorities declare. But there are doubting Thom: in the state who insist on being shown. The republicans will have ten more mem- bers in the next house of representatives than in the last and the democrats and fu- elonists nineteen more. There are twenty- nine additional members. David Bennett Hill isn't saying a word, but his hand is on the lever. To save his party needless mental exertion he has pro- vided a candidate for senator to receive the votes of the minority in the legislature. are made for them in London. The first great attraction to all of them is higher wages. House servants get from $15 to $20 a month and nursery governesses are also in demand; but typewriters and ‘“lady clerks” are strongly advised not to go out at present. The distress among the poor of London, on account of the high prices of pro- visions, coal and clothing, and the scarcity of work, is of a nature to alarm those of the authorities who give sincere thought A census that has been shows that the number recelving rellef from the county of London at the close of November was 108,167, or more than ever before for that month, and not exceeded relatively to the population since 1857. Most of the work- Louses are full, and some of them are greatly overcrowded, their total population being 68708, while 39,846 persons are re- celving outdoor relief. The destitution is scattered throughout the entire metropolls, even the district which includes the ultra shionable St. George's, Hanover Squai having 8,706 paupers to support. The fear is that the situation will become much | worse before it becomes better, and that the actual dships of winter will be more bitter than at any time within re- cent recollection. It is an open secret here that negotia- Brussels tions are pending between Rome, and Berlin for some sort of agr: to the supervision of anarchis street was invited to partioipat clined on the ground that the measures contemplated might be an infringement of personal rights. Within certain well-de- fined limits, however, England promised its support to whatever might be agreed upon by Italy, Belgium and Germany. Next to London, Brussels is the most flourishing hotbed of anarchistic propaganda, while Berlin is ever fearful that it may soon become the rival of both. Should an in- ternational anti-anarchist treaty be the outcome of the present negotlations the burden of activity would, of course, fall upon the Italian government, which, it Is expected, would agree to prevent, as far as possible, Itallan anarchists from emi- grating, and would further olace detectives at the disposition of the police authorities of Brussels and Berlin, of the Grub Stake. this is & representative exposition of the “relation” between gross and net earnings Bo wonder the stocks of the big rallroads bave gone skyward. The rallroads are commanded to file with the commission by January 10 written statements setting forth the reasons they rely on to justify their advances. Unless they can do better than Mr. Grammer they will make a poor show- ing tndeed. Baltimore American, The twelve young men oo whom the De- partment of Agriculture is to try its diet There is nothing in it, so Hill is not the man. W. W. Brinkley, treasurer of the Chau- tauqua assoclation of Carthage, Mo., rushes into print to demy the story that W. J. Bryan received $2,300 for a lecture before the association in 1897. Mr. Brinkley says Mr. Bryan's tip was $1,006, just one-half the gate receipts. By the death the other day of former Captain of Police John Fichette of Minne- apolls the chief witness against ex-Mayor Ames, who is under indictment for corrup- tign bas been removed. It being doubtful if & conviction could now be ob- tained, the district attorney contemplates a dismissal of the case against the ex-meyor. In 1901 the vote of Boston on the question of licensing saloons was: Yes, 43,734; no, 27,193 This year the district option bill was submitted to popular approval, but was defeated. The vote was 35,681 for the meas- ure and 46,039 against. The bill was de- signed to divide Boston into several license it is belleved, be finished by the beginning | districts and to allow each to vote sepa- rately on the question of license or na lcense. An attempt to rush a corporation law modeled after the New Jersey act through | the Rhode Island leglslature was exposed by the newspapers, and thereby probably defeated. The proposed law was muol looser In the restrictions imposed on com« | panies seeking charters, and was intended to lure all sorts of corporations to the state for purposes of revenue. The greatest se- crecy was maintained about the bill, coples of which could be obtained only with much difficulty. The republicans of Missour! polled 214,000 votes at the 1900 election—almost the same vote cast by the republicans of Michigan in the same contest. But while the republic- ans of Missourl have only two represent tives in the next congress the republicans of Michigan will have eleven, a dispropor- tion explained by the fact that there was & large partisan apportionment of Missouri districts by the legislature, whereas the ap- portionment of the Michigan districts was made on an equitable basls, giving both parties a fair chance of success. The congressional representation of the far west {8 protty solidly republican this year: From the three Pacific states, Call- fornia, Oregon and Washington, there are 10 republicans and § democrats; from the mining and mountain group of states, Mon- tana, Idaho, Colerado, Wyoming, South Da- kota, Nevada and North Dakota, there are 9 republicans and 2 democrats, and Kansas and Nebraska close collectively 13 republic- ans and 1 democrat. From the whole terri- tory west of Mississippi, therefore, there are 82 republicans and 6 democrats only. This does not include Minnesota, in which the republicans elected § members and the democrats 1, John Lind. POINTED R Washington Uncle Eben, bein’, patient, tory." when dey Cleveland Plain Dealer{ announces “¥ag, he himssif as o patton or ar® HIn what way? “He manufactures nmufv oora.” ways Sho's awfully old-fash- in long ehgagements.' . she belleves In long . Baltimore Sun W marriages, Philadelphia Pre had great luck coming home in the trofley car last night.” “You didn't really get a seat 4 my, no! but T had a half interest in a strap nearly all the way.” Somerville Journal: This is the season when a man looks at the exyensive fringed hammock that he *aight last summer and fecls Inclined to wisn that he had saved his money to get sowne.more winter flan- nels with, . y New York Times: Ithel—Mr. Jones has asked me to go to the theater with him temorrow night. Helen—That's strange. He asked me also. Ethel—Yes. I told him I wouldn't go without chaperon. Boston Transcript: Kate—Fred says I'm the one woman in all the world for him. Harriet—He thinks so much of you, I should think you'd marry him. Kate—And have some other woman be the only one in all the world? Not much; I know when I'm well ol!. Chicago Pfill '“:'h': - d.lhlf & man ¥ 11 AN °'3§'..'.°figy R R N W “You clmchodlz:ur fist 'hm you called me a scoundrel other OPPORTUNITIES, Christmas joy and Christmas cheer Come to us but once a year, And our To be gained, 1; Tasts The whole year through. herds left their floc] night, :flea Dot tor morning’s Hehte to Thioush the darkness we may find, Searching with & eingle mind, Where the hel ‘Wise men from their richest store Brought gifls to the lowly door Where the Child was lafd; We may lift up tee r.em hands; There are wan I lands Boule From hoaven strayed: Winside, Neb. BELLE WILLEY GUE. Our Windows Show about everything that is new and fashionable for the men. play of useful and dainty wearables. You will look a long way before you see a finer dis- If you have not thought of the men folks we suggest you walk around our store windows and see for yourself how beautiful are the many elegant gifts there in House Coats, Robes, Pajamas, Rain Coats, Umbrellas, Neckwear, Mufflers, Hand Bags, Gloves, NO CLOTHING FITS LIKE OURS. experiment are real heroes and genuine patriots. A man may give his life, his fortune and his sacred honor for his coun- try and mean something, but when he sac- rifices his stomach on the altar of patriote fsm then his devotion is the pure, una- Quiterated article, Rrowning- King -3~ @ R S. WILCOX, Manager. (1 H !